To My Godchild-francis M. W. M. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFF GGHHIIJJFFFFKLHHFFF FFMMMNNHHOOFFPPQQRR SSTUVVFFUUUUWWWFFFHH| This labouring vast Tellurian galleon | A |
| Riding at anchor off the orient sun | A |
| Had broken its cable and stood out to space | B |
| Down some frore Arctic of the aerial ways | C |
| And now back warping from the inclement main | D |
| Its vaporous shroudage drenched with icy rain | D |
| It swung into its azure roads again | E |
| When floated on the prosperous sun gale you | F |
| Lit a white halcyon auspice 'mid our frozen crew | F |
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| To the Sun stranger surely you belong | G |
| Giver of golden days and golden song | G |
| Nor is it by an all unhappy plan | H |
| You bear the name of me his constant Magian | H |
| Yet ah from any other that it came | I |
| Lest fated to my fate you be as to my name | I |
| When at the first those tidings did they bring | J |
| My heart turned troubled at the ominous thing | J |
| Though well may such a title him endower | F |
| For whom a poet's prayer implores a poet's power | F |
| The Assisian who kept plighted faith to three | F |
| To Song to Sanctitude and Poverty | F |
| In two alone of whom most singers prove | K |
| A fatal faithfulness of during love | L |
| He the sweet Sales of whom we scarcely ken | H |
| How God he could love more he so loved men | H |
| The crown and crowned of Laura and Italy | F |
| And Fletcher's fellow from these and not from me | F |
| Take you your name and take your legacy | F |
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| Or if a right successive you declare | F |
| When worms for ivies intertwine my hair | F |
| Take but this Poesy that now followeth | M |
| My clayey hest with sullen servile breath | M |
| Made then your happy freedman by testating death | M |
| My song I do but hold for you in trust | N |
| I ask you but to blossom from my dust | N |
| When you have compassed all weak I began | H |
| Diviner poet and ah diviner man | H |
| The man at feud with the perduring child | O |
| In you before song's altar nobly reconciled | O |
| From the wise heavens I half shall smile to see | F |
| How little a world which owned you needed me | F |
| If while you keep the vigils of the night | P |
| For your wild tears make darkness all too bright | P |
| Some lone orb through your lonely window peeps | Q |
| As it played lover over your sweet sleeps | Q |
| Think it a golden crevice in the sky | R |
| Which I have pierced but to behold you by | R |
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| And when immortal mortal droops your head | S |
| And you the child of deathless song are dead | S |
| Then as you search with unaccustomed glance | T |
| The ranks of Paradise for my countenance | U |
| Turn not your tread along the Uranian sod | V |
| Among the bearded counsellors of God | V |
| For if in Eden as on earth are we | F |
| I sure shall keep a younger company | F |
| Pass where beneath their ranged gonfalons | U |
| The starry cohorts shake their shielded suns | U |
| The dreadful mass of their enridged spears | U |
| Pass where majestical the eternal peers | U |
| The stately choice of the great Saintdom meet | W |
| A silvern segregation globed complete | W |
| In sandalled shadow of the Triune feet | W |
| Pass by where wait young poet wayfarer | F |
| Your cousined clusters emulous to share | F |
| With you the roseal lightnings burning 'mid their hair | F |
| Pass the crystalline sea the Lampads seven | H |
| Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven | H |
Francis Thompson
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