Penseroso Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK| Soulless is all humanity to me | A |
| To night My keenest longing is to be | A |
| Alone alone with God's grey earth that seems | B |
| Pulse of my pulse and consort of my dreams | B |
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| To night my soul desires no fellowship | C |
| Or fellow being crave I but to slip | C |
| Thro' space on space till flesh no more can bind | D |
| And I may quit for aye my fellow kind | D |
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| Let me but feel athwart my cheek the lash | E |
| Of whipping wind but hear the torrent dash | E |
| Adown the mountain steep 'twere more my choice | F |
| Than touch of human hand than human voice | F |
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| Let me but wander on the shore night stilled | G |
| Drinking its darkness till my soul is filled | G |
| The breathing of the salt sea on my hair | H |
| My outstretched hands but grasping empty air | H |
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| Let me but feel the pulse of Nature's soul | I |
| Athrob on mine let seas and thunders roll | I |
| O'er night and me sands whirl winds waters beat | J |
| For God's grey earth has no cheap counterfeit | K |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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