The Heart: Two Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDCDEFGFGHH A DIDIJKJKLHLHHH| I | A |
| The heart you hold too small and local thing | B |
| Such spacious terms of edifice to bear | C |
| And yet since Poesy first shook out her wing | B |
| The mighty Love has been impalaced there | C |
| That has she given him as his wide demesne | D |
| And for his sceptre ample empery | C |
| Against its door to knock has Beauty been | D |
| Content it has its purple canopy | E |
| A dais for the sovereign lady spread | F |
| Of many a lover who the heaven would think | G |
| Too low an awning for her sacred head | F |
| The world from star to sea cast down its brink | G |
| Yet shall that chasm till He Who these did build | H |
| An awful Curtius make Him yawn unfilled | H |
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| II | A |
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| O nothing in this corporal earth of man | D |
| That to the imminent heaven of his high soul | I |
| Responds with colour and with shadow can | D |
| Lack correlated greatness If the scroll | I |
| Where thoughts lie fast in spell of hieroglyph | J |
| Be mighty through its mighty habitants | K |
| If God be in His Name grave potence if | J |
| The sounds unbind of hieratic chants | K |
| All's vast that vastness means Nay I affirm | L |
| Nature is whole in her least things exprest | H |
| Nor know we with what scope God builds the worm | L |
| Our towns are copied fragments from our breast | H |
| And all man's Babylons strive but to impart | H |
| The grandeurs of his Babylonian heart | H |
Francis Thompson
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