The Choir Invisible Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLDMNOPQRN FSJDTDOUVWXYZA2B2KDV DC2D2AJ| Oh may I join the choir invisible | A |
| Of those immortal dead who live again | B |
| In minds made better by their presence live | C |
| In pulses stirred to generosity | D |
| In deeds of daring rectitude in scorn | E |
| For miserable aims that end with self | F |
| In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars | G |
| And with their mild persistence urge men's search | H |
| To vaster issues So to live is heaven | I |
| To make undying music in the world | J |
| Breathing a beauteous order that controls | K |
| With growing sway the growing life of man | L |
| So we inherit that sweet purity | D |
| For which we struggled failed and agonized | M |
| With widening retrospect that bred despair | N |
| Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued | O |
| A vicious parent shaming still its child | P |
| Poor anxious penitence is quick dissolved | Q |
| Its discords quenched by meeting harmonies | R |
| Die in the large and charitable air | N |
| And all our rarer better truer self | F |
| That sobbed religiously in yearning song | S |
| That watched to ease the burden of the world | J |
| Laboriously tracing what must be | D |
| And what may yet be better saw within | T |
| A worthier image for the sanctuary | D |
| And shaped it forth before the multitude | O |
| Divinely human raising worship so | U |
| To higher reverence more mixed with love | V |
| That better self shall live till human Time | W |
| Shall fold its eyelids and the human sky | X |
| Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb | Y |
| Unread forever This is life to come | Z |
| Which martyred men have made more glorious | A2 |
| For us who strive to follow May I reach | B2 |
| That purest heaven be to other souls | K |
| The cup of strength in some great agony | D |
| Enkindle generous ardor feed pure love | V |
| Beget the smiles that have no cruelty | D |
| Be the sweet presence of a good diffused | C2 |
| And in diffusion ever more intense | D2 |
| So shall I join the choir invisible | A |
| Whose music is the gladness of the world | J |
George Eliot
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