De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE BFBF GHIH JKJK| When I am dead unto myself and let | A |
| O Father thee live on in me | B |
| Contented to do nought but pay my debt | A |
| And leave the house to thee | B |
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| Then shall I be thy ransomed from the cark | C |
| Of living from the strain for breath | D |
| From tossing in my coffin strait and dark | C |
| At hourly strife with death | D |
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| Have mercy in my coffin and awake | C |
| A buried temple of the Lord | E |
| Grow Temple grow Heart from thy cerements break | C |
| Stream out O living Sword | E |
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| When I am with thee as thou art with me | B |
| Life will be self forgetting power | F |
| Love ever conscious buoyant clear and free | B |
| Will flame in darkest hour | F |
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| Where now I sit alone unmoving calm | G |
| With windows open to thy wind | H |
| Shall I not know thee in the radiant psalm | I |
| Soaring from heart and mind | H |
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| The body of this death will melt away | J |
| And I shall know as I am known | K |
| Know thee my father every hour and day | J |
| As thou know'st me thine own | K |
George Macdonald
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