Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCA DEFGEHIJD FKLMKNGOF PQRSQTUVP WXUYXZA2W HB2BC2B2D2E2F2H WG2H2I2J2K2L2W AThe search for beauty is the search for God | A |
Who is All Beauty He who seeks shall find | B |
And all along the paths my feet have trod | A |
I have sought hungrily with heart and mind | B |
And open eyes for beauty everywhere | C |
Lo I have found the world is very fair | C |
The search for beauty is the search for God | A |
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Beauty was first revealed to me by stars | D |
Before I saw it in my mother's eyes | E |
Or seeing sensed it beauty I was stirred | F |
To awe and wonder by those orbs of light | G |
All palpitant against empurpled skies | E |
They spoke a language to my childish heart | H |
Of mystery and splendour and of space | I |
Friendly with gracious unseen presences | J |
Beauty was first revealed to me by stars | D |
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Sunsets enlarged the meaning of the word | F |
There was a window looking to the west | K |
Beyond it wide Wisconsin fields of grain | L |
And then a hill whereon white flocks of clouds | M |
Would gather in the afternoon to rest | K |
And when the sun went down behind that hill | N |
What scenes of glory spread before my sight | G |
What beauty beauty absolute supreme | O |
Sunsets enlarged the meaning of that word | F |
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Clover in blossom red and honey sweet | P |
In summer billowed like a crimson sea | Q |
Across the meadow lands One day I stood | R |
Breast high amidst its waves and heard the hum | S |
Of myriad bees that had gone mad like me | Q |
With fragrance and with beauty Over us | T |
A loving sun smiled from a cloudless sky | U |
While a bold breeze kissed lightly as it passed | V |
Clover in blossom red and honey sweet | P |
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Autumn spoke loudly of the beautiful | W |
And in the gallery of Nature hung | X |
Colossal pictures hard against the sky | U |
Set forests gorgeous with a hundred hues | Y |
And with each morning some new wonder flung | X |
Before the startled world some daring shade | Z |
Some strange new scheme of colour and of form | A2 |
Autumn spoke loudly of the beautiful | W |
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Winter though rude is delicate in art | H |
More delicate than Summer or than fall | B2 |
Even as rugged man is more refined | B |
In vital things than woman Winter's touch | C2 |
On Nature seemed most beautiful of all | B2 |
That evanescent beauty of the frost | D2 |
On window panes of clean fresh fallen snow | E2 |
Of white white sunlight on the ice draped trees | F2 |
Winter though rude is delicate in art | H |
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Morning The word itself is beautiful | W |
And the young hours have many gifts to give | G2 |
That feed the soul with beauty He who keeps | H2 |
His days for labour and his nights for sleep | I2 |
Wakes conscious of the joy it is to live | J2 |
And brings from that mysterious Land of Dreams | K2 |
A sense of beauty that illumines earth | L2 |
Morning The word itself is beautiful | W |
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The search for beauty is the search for God | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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