I Grant You Ample Leave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGEDEHEIJBKELE E| I grant you ample leave | A |
| To use the hoary formula 'I am' | B |
| Naming the emptiness where thought is not | C |
| But fill the void with definition 'I' | D |
| Will be no more a datum than the words | E |
| You link false inference with the 'Since' 'so' | E |
| That true or not make up the atom whirl | F |
| Resolve your 'Ego' it is all one web | G |
| With vibrant ether clotted into worlds | E |
| Your subject self or self assertive 'I' | D |
| Turns nought but object melts to molecules | E |
| Is stripped from naked Being with the rest | H |
| Of those rag garments named the Universe | E |
| Or if in strife to keep your 'Ego' strong | I |
| You make it weaver of the etherial light | J |
| Space motion solids the dream of Time | B |
| Why still 'tis Being looking from the dark | K |
| The core the centre of your consciousness | E |
| That notes your bubble world sense pleasure pain | L |
| What are they but a shifting otherness | E |
| Phantasmal flux of moments | E |
George Eliot
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