All Flesh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAABB BBCCBBD DEEFCBBAAGGAA BBHHCCBB BBIIBBBB CCCCAABBB| I do not need the skies' | A |
| Pomp when I would be wise | A |
| For pleasaunce nor to use | A |
| Heaven's champaign when I muse | A |
| One grass blade in its veins | A |
| Wisdom's whole flood contains | A |
| Thereon my foundering mind | B |
| Odyssean fate can find | B |
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| O little blade now vaunt | B |
| Thee and be arrogant | B |
| Tell the proud sun that he | C |
| Sweated in shaping thee | C |
| Night that she did unvest | B |
| Her mooned and argent breast | B |
| To suckle thee Heaven fain | D |
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| Yearned over thee in rain | D |
| And with wide parent wing | E |
| Shadowed thee nested thing | E |
| Fed thee and slaved for thy | F |
| Impotent tyranny | C |
| Nature's broad thews bent | B |
| Meek for thy content | B |
| Mastering littleness | A |
| Which the wise heavens confess | A |
| The frailty which doth draw | G |
| Magnipotence to its law | G |
| These were O happy one these | A |
| Thy laughing puissances | A |
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| Be confident of thought | B |
| Seeing that thou art naught | B |
| And be thy pride thou'rt all | H |
| Delectably safe and small | H |
| Epitomized in thee | C |
| Was the mystery | C |
| Which shakes the spheres conjoint | B |
| God focussed to a point | B |
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| All thy fine mouths shout | B |
| Scorn upon dull eyed doubt | B |
| Impenetrable fool | I |
| Is he thou canst not school | I |
| To the humility | B |
| By which the angels see | B |
| Unfathomably framed | B |
| Sister I am not shamed | B |
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| Before the cherubin | C |
| To vaunt my flesh thy kin | C |
| My one hand thine and one | C |
| Imprisoned in God's own | C |
| I am as God alas | A |
| And such a god of grass | A |
| A little root clay caught | B |
| A wind a flame a thought | B |
| Inestimably naught | B |
Francis Thompson
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