By Reason Of Thy Law Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGFHHFIJF KLHHMHLLNNH OPHHLLHHHLLLL HHHQQHQHHQHere I make oath | A |
Although the heart that knows its bitterness | B |
Hear loath | A |
And credit less | C |
That he who kens to meet Pain's kisses fierce | D |
Which hiss against his tears | E |
Dread loss nor love frustrate | F |
Nor all iniquity of the froward years | G |
Shall his inur ed wing make idly bate | F |
Nor of the appointed quarry his staunch sight | H |
To lose observance quite | H |
Seal from half sad and all elate | F |
Sagacious eyes | I |
Ultimate Paradise | J |
Nor shake his certitude of haughty fate | F |
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Pacing the burning shares of many dooms | K |
I with stern tread do the clear witting stars | L |
To judgment cite | H |
If I have borne aright | H |
The proving of their pure willed ordeal | M |
From food of all delight | H |
The heavenly Falconer my heart debars | L |
And tames with fearful glooms | L |
The haggard to His call | N |
Yet sometimes comes a hand sometimes a voice withal | N |
And she sits meek now and expects the light | H |
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In this Avernian sky | O |
This sultry and incumbent canopy | P |
Of dull and doomed regret | H |
Where on the unseen verges yet O yet | H |
At intervals | L |
Trembles and falls | L |
Faint lightning of remembered transient sweet | H |
Ah far too sweet | H |
But to be sweet a little a little sweet and fleet | H |
Leaving this pallid trace | L |
This loitering and most fitful light a space | L |
Still some sad space | L |
For Grief to see her own poor face | L |
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Here where I keep my stand | H |
With all o'er anguished feet | H |
And no live comfort near on any hand | H |
Lo I proclaim the unavoided term | Q |
When this morass of tears then drained and firm | Q |
Shall be a land | H |
Unshaken I affirm | Q |
Where seven quired psalterings meet | H |
And all the gods move with calm hand in hand | H |
And eyes that know not trouble and the worm | Q |
Francis Thompson
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