I Know What Beauty Is Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLMK NOON PQQP RSSR| I know what beauty is for thou | A |
| Hast set the world within my heart | B |
| Of me thou madest it a part | B |
| I never loved it more than now | A |
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| I know the Sabbath afternoons | C |
| The light asleep upon the graves | D |
| Against the sky the poplar waves | D |
| The river murmurs organ tunes | C |
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| I know the spring with bud and bell | E |
| The hush in summer woods at night | F |
| Autumn when trees let in more light | F |
| Fantastic winter's lovely spell | E |
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| I know the rapture music gives | G |
| Its mystery of ordered tones | H |
| Dream muffled soul it loves and moans | H |
| And half alive comes in and lives | G |
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| And verse I know whose concord high | I |
| Of thought and music lifts the soul | J |
| Where many a glimmering starry shoal | J |
| Glides through the Godhead's living sky | I |
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| Yea Beauty's regnant All I know | K |
| The imperial head the thoughtful eyes | L |
| The God imprisoned harmonies | M |
| That out in gracious motions go | K |
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| But I leave all O Son of man | N |
| Put off my shoes and come to thee | O |
| Most lovely thou of all I see | O |
| Most potent thou of all that can | N |
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| As child forsakes his favourite toy | P |
| His sisters' sport his new found nest | Q |
| And climbing to his mother's breast | Q |
| Enjoys yet more his late left joy | P |
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| I lose to find On fair browed bride | R |
| Fair pearls their fairest light afford | S |
| So gathered round thy glory Lord | S |
| All glory else is glorified | R |
George Macdonald
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