The Lost Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBCDEFFDEAAGGG EEGGEEGHIIHIIEEEEJJ IKIIIKIKKIEKEKEKLMLM EEKKEEININOOPO ONONPPIIPOLook look there | A |
Send your eyes across the gray | B |
By my finger point away | B |
Through the vaporous fumy air | A |
Beyond the air you see the dark | C |
Beyond the dark the dawning day | B |
On its horizon pray you mark | C |
Something like a ruined heap | D |
Of worlds half uncreated that go back | E |
Down all the grades through which they rose | F |
Up to harmonious life and law's repose | F |
Back slow to the awful deep | D |
Of nothingness mere being's lack | E |
On its surface lone and bare | A |
Shapeless as a dumb despair | A |
Formless nameless something lies | G |
Can the vision in your eyes | G |
Its idea recognize | G |
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'Tis a poor lost soul alack | E |
Half he lived some ages back | E |
But with hardly opened eyes | G |
Thinking him already wise | G |
Down he sat and wrote a book | E |
Drew his life into a nook | E |
Out of it would not arise | G |
To peruse the letters dim | H |
Graven dark on his own walls | I |
Those he judged were chance led scrawls | I |
Or at best no use to him | H |
A lamp was there for reading these | I |
This he trimmed sitting at ease | I |
For its aid to write his book | E |
Never at his walls to look | E |
Trimmed and trimmed to one faint spark | E |
Which went out and left him dark | E |
I will try if he can hear | J |
Spirit words with spirit ear | J |
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Motionless thing who once | I |
Like him who cries to thee | K |
Hadst thy place with thy shining peers | I |
Thy changeful place in the changeless dance | I |
Issuing ever in radiance | I |
From the doors of the far eternity | K |
With feet that glitter and glide and glance | I |
To the music law that binds the free | K |
And sets the captive at liberty | K |
To the clang of the crystal spheres | I |
O heart for love O thirst to drink | E |
From the wells that feed the sea | K |
O hands of truth a human link | E |
'Twixt mine and the Father's knee | K |
O eyes to see O soul to think | E |
O life the brother of me | K |
Has Infinitude sucked back all | L |
The individual life it gave | M |
Boots it nothing to cry and call | L |
Is thy form an empty grave | M |
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It heareth not brothers the terrible thing | E |
Sounds no sense to its ear will bring | E |
Let us away 'tis no use to tarry | K |
Love no light to its heart will carry | K |
Sting it with words it will never shrink | E |
It will not repent it cannot think | E |
Hath God forgotten it alas | I |
Lost in eternity's lumber room | N |
Will the wind of his breathing never pass | I |
Over it through the insensate gloom | N |
Like a frost killed bud on a tombstone curled | O |
Crumbling it lies on its crumbling world | O |
Sightless and deaf with never a cry | P |
In the hell of its own vacuity | O |
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See see yon angel crossing our flight | O |
Where the thunder vapours loom | N |
From his upcast pinions flashing the light | O |
Of some outbreaking doom | N |
Up brothers away a storm is nigh | P |
Smite we the wing up a steeper sky | P |
What matters the hail or the clashing winds | I |
The thunder that buffets the lightning that blinds | I |
We know by the tempest we do not lie | P |
Dead in the pits of eternity | O |
George Macdonald
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