Any Saint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGH GGII JJAA GGAA KKLL AAMM KKNN AAHG OPEK QQRR KKAA SSAA KKTT BBUU VVAA WWAA AAXX YYAA VVAA AAZZ KAA2A2 IB2YY AAAA C2C2AA VAZZ D2E2F2F2 KKKK F2F2ZZ F2F2ZZ AAF2F2 G2GKK AAAA AAAA LLAA H2H2F2F2 KKI2J2 F2F2AA F2F2AA VVF2K IIAA ZZAAHis shoulder did I hold | A |
Too high that I o'erbold | A |
Weak one | B |
Should lean thereon | C |
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But He a little hath | D |
Declined His stately path | D |
And my | E |
Feet set more high | E |
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That the slack arm may reach | F |
His shoulder and faint speech | F |
Stir | G |
His unwithering hair | H |
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And bolder now and bolder | G |
I lean upon that shoulder | G |
So dear | I |
He is and near | I |
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And with His aureole | J |
The tresses of my soul | J |
Are blent | A |
In wished content | A |
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Yes this too gentle Lover | G |
Hath flattering words to move her | G |
To pride | A |
By His sweet side | A |
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Ah Love somewhat let be | K |
Lest my humility | K |
Grow weak | L |
When thou dost speak | L |
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Rebate thy tender suit | A |
Lest to herself impute | A |
Some worth | M |
Thy bride of earth | M |
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A maid too easily | K |
Conceits herself to be | K |
Those things | N |
Her lover sings | N |
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And being straitly wooed | A |
Believes herself the Good | A |
And Fair | H |
He seeks in her | G |
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Turn something of Thy look | O |
And fear me with rebuke | P |
That I | E |
May timorously | K |
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Take tremors in Thy arms | Q |
And with contriv ed charms | Q |
Allure | R |
A love unsure | R |
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Not to me not to me | K |
Builded so flawfully | K |
O God | A |
Thy humbling laud | A |
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Not to this man but Man | S |
Universe in a span | S |
Point | A |
Of the spheres conjoint | A |
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In whom eternally | K |
Thou Light dost focus Thee | K |
Didst pave | T |
The way o' the wave | T |
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Rivet with stars the Heaven | B |
For causeways to Thy driven | B |
Car | U |
In its coming far | U |
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Unto him only him | V |
In Thy deific whim | V |
Didst bound | A |
Thy works' great round | A |
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In this small ring of flesh | W |
The sky's gold knotted mesh | W |
Thy wrist | A |
Did only twist | A |
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To take him in that net | A |
Man swinging wicket set | A |
Between | X |
The Unseen and Seen | X |
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Lo God's two worlds immense | Y |
Of spirit and of sense | Y |
Wed | A |
In this narrow bed | A |
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Yea and the midge's hymn | V |
Answers the seraphim | V |
Athwart | A |
Thy body's court | A |
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Great arm fellow of God | A |
To the ancestral clod | A |
Kin | Z |
And to cherubin | Z |
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Bread predilectedly | K |
O' the worm and Deity | A |
Hark | A2 |
O God's clay sealed Ark | A2 |
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To praise that fits thee clear | I |
To the ear within the ear | B2 |
But dense | Y |
To clay sealed sense | Y |
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All the Omnific made | A |
When in a word he said | A |
Mystery | A |
He uttered THEE | A |
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Thee His great utterance bore | C2 |
O secret metaphor | C2 |
Of what | A |
Thou dream'st no jot | A |
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Cosmic metonymy | V |
Weak world unshuttering key | A |
One | Z |
Seal of Solomon | Z |
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Trope that itself not scans | D2 |
Its huge significance | E2 |
Which tries | F2 |
Cherubic eyes | F2 |
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Primer where the angels all | K |
God's grammar spell in small | K |
Nor spell | K |
The highest too well | K |
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Point for the great descants | F2 |
Of starry disputants | F2 |
Equation | Z |
Of creation | Z |
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Thou meaning couldst thou see | F2 |
Of all which dafteth thee | F2 |
So plain | Z |
It mocks thy pain | Z |
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Stone of the Law indeed | A |
Thine own self couldst thou read | A |
Thy bliss | F2 |
Within thee is | F2 |
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Compost of Heaven and mire | G2 |
Slow foot and swift desire | G |
Lo | K |
To have Yes choose No | K |
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Gird and thou shalt unbind | A |
Seek not and thou shalt find | A |
To eat | A |
Deny thy meat | A |
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And thou shalt be fulfilled | A |
With all sweet things unwilled | A |
So best | A |
God loves to jest | A |
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With children small a freak | L |
Of heavenly hide and seek | L |
Fit | A |
For thy wayward wit | A |
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Who art thyself a thing | H2 |
Of whim and wavering | H2 |
Free | F2 |
When His wings pen thee | F2 |
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Sole fully blest to feel | K |
God whistle thee at heel | K |
Drunk up | I2 |
As a dew drop | J2 |
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When He bends down sun wise | F2 |
Intemperable eyes | F2 |
Most proud | A |
When utterly bowed | A |
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To feel thyself and be | F2 |
His dear nonentity | F2 |
Caught | A |
Beyond human thought | A |
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In the thunder spout of Him | V |
Until thy being dim | V |
And be | F2 |
Dead deathlessly | K |
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Stoop stoop for thou dost fear | I |
The nettle's wrathful spear | I |
So slight | A |
Art thou of might | A |
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Rise for Heaven hath no frown | Z |
When thou to thee pluck'st down | Z |
Strong clod | A |
The neck of God | A |
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