God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNOPQRSR TUTCVKRTFR KTWXRYTZA2T B2RC2QD2E2F2G2FT H2RRRI2J2K2RL2T RTRM2KN2KI2O2P2 Q2RTTR2S2TT2U2K J2BHV2W2HTHHF FX2HIHHXY2VB THHZ2TA3B3H2HT| O Thou who's infinite in space | A |
| Alive in ever moving matter | B |
| Eternal in the flow of time | C |
| God faceless with a trinity of faces | D |
| Soul unified and omnipresent | E |
| Who needs no place or reason | F |
| Whom none can ever comprehend | G |
| Whose being permeates all things | H |
| Encompassing creating guarding | I |
| Thou called by us God | J |
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| Although a great mind might contrive | K |
| To fix the ocean's depths | L |
| To count the sands the rays of stars | M |
| Thou can't be summed or fixed | N |
| Enlightened souls who have emerged | O |
| From your creative light | P |
| Cannot begin to grasp your ways | Q |
| Our thought alone aspires to thee | R |
| But in your magnitude is lost | S |
| A moment in eternity | R |
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| From depths eternal thou invoked | T |
| Primordial substances of chaos | U |
| Within thine very self thou birthed | T |
| Eternity before all time | C |
| And before time from thine self alone | V |
| Thou shinest forth within thyself | K |
| All light originates in thee | R |
| Creating all with but a single word | T |
| And reaching forth in new creation | F |
| Thou wast thou art and thou will ever be | R |
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| Thou incarnate the chain of life | K |
| Thou nourish and sustain it | T |
| Thou joinest starts with ends | W |
| Thou bringest life to all through death | X |
| New suns are born from thee | R |
| In flowing streams of sparks | Y |
| As on a clear and freezing day | T |
| A hoarfrost dusting shines | Z |
| And floats and churns and sparkles | A2 |
| As do the stars beneath thy vault | T |
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| A multitude of shining spheres | B2 |
| Floats off into infinity | R |
| They all fulfill thy laws | C2 |
| And cast their vivifying rays | Q |
| But all these brilliant lanterns | D2 |
| This mass of glowing crystal | E2 |
| This roiling crowd of golden waves | F2 |
| These burning elements | G2 |
| Or all these gleaming worlds as one | F |
| Compare to thee like night to day | T |
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| Compared to thee the earthly realm | H2 |
| Is like a droplet in the sea | R |
| What is this universe I see | R |
| And what am I compared to thee | R |
| If in this airy sea I wish | I2 |
| To multiply a million worlds | J2 |
| By other worlds a hundred times | K2 |
| Then venture to compare the sum to thee | R |
| All this would be a tiny speck | L2 |
| So I compared to thee am naught | T |
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| I'm Naught But thou shinest through me | R |
| With all the splendor of your virtue | T |
| Thou showest yourself through me | R |
| Like sun inside a tiny water drop | M2 |
| I'm Naught But still I can feel life | K |
| Like something hungering I fly | N2 |
| I'm always soaring high above | K |
| To be with you is my soul's wish | I2 |
| It contemplates reflects and thinks | O2 |
| If I exist thou art as well | P2 |
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| Thou art As nature's order shows | Q2 |
| My heart affirms the same to me | R |
| My reason's sure of it | T |
| Tho art And I'm no longer naught | T |
| A fraction of the universe's whole | R2 |
| It seems that I repose in nature's | S2 |
| Critical center where you started | T |
| With the creation of corporeal beasts | T2 |
| And ended with the heav'nly spirits | U2 |
| Through me you fused the chain of life | K |
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| I am the link of all existing worlds | J2 |
| I am the outer brink of matter | B |
| I am the focal point of living things | H |
| I am the starting place of the divine | V2 |
| Although my flesh rots into ash | W2 |
| My mind commands the thunderbolts | H |
| I'm king I'm slave I'm worm I'm God | T |
| But though I am miraculous | H |
| Whence did I come that no one knows | H |
| I could not by myself have risen | F |
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| Creator I am your invention | F |
| I am a creature of your wisdom | X2 |
| O source of life bestower of blessings | H |
| My soul and king | I |
| According to your iron laws | H |
| My self eternal must needs pass | H |
| Across the borne of death | X |
| My spirit's clothed in mortal garb | Y2 |
| And I return through death alone | V |
| To your eternity O father | B |
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| Thou art inscrutable transcendent | T |
| I understand that all my soul's | H |
| Imaginings are powerless | H |
| Your shadow to describe | Z2 |
| But when thou must be glorified | T |
| To pay such tribute we frail men | A3 |
| One course alone can follow | B3 |
| We venture upwards to thy realm | H2 |
| To lose ourselves in thy vast otherness | H |
| And shed our tears of gratitude | T |
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
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