Meditation Under Stars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBBDEEDFGDFFGEAEE A HHIIJJBBKKKKBKBKBBBL MLM BBNNBBMBBBBBMBBBBBMM BOB BOPQPBBBOBQPBOPP| What links are ours with orbs that are | A |
| So resolutely far | A |
| The solitary asks and they | B |
| Give radiance as from a shield | C |
| Still at the death of day | B |
| The seen the unrevealed | B |
| Implacable they shine | D |
| To us who would of Life obtain | E |
| An answer for the life we strain | E |
| To nourish with one sign | D |
| Nor can imagination throw | F |
| The penetrative shaft we pass | G |
| The breath of thought who would divine | D |
| If haply they may grow | F |
| As Earth have our desire to know | F |
| If life comes there to grain from grass | G |
| And flowers like ours of toil and pain | E |
| Has passion to beat bar | A |
| Win space from cleaving brain | E |
| The mystic link attain | E |
| Whereby star holds on star | A |
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| Those visible immortals beam | H |
| Allurement to the dream | H |
| Ireful at human hungers brook | I |
| No question in the look | I |
| For ever virgin to our sense | J |
| Remote they wane to gaze intense | J |
| Prolong it and in ruthlessness they smite | B |
| The beating heart behind the ball of sight | B |
| Till we conceive their heavens hoar | K |
| Those lights they raise but sparkles frore | K |
| And Earth our blood warm Earth a shuddering prey | K |
| To that frigidity of brainless ray | K |
| Yet space is given for breath of thought | B |
| Beyond our bounds when musing more | K |
| When to that musing love is brought | B |
| And love is asked of love's wherefore | K |
| 'Tis Earth's her gift else have we nought | B |
| Her gift her secret here our tie | B |
| And not with her and yonder sky | B |
| Bethink you were it Earth alone | L |
| Breeds love would not her region be | M |
| The sole delight and throne | L |
| Of generous Deity | M |
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| To deeper than this ball of sight | B |
| Appeal the lustrous people of the night | B |
| Fronting yon shoreless sown with fiery sails | N |
| It is our ravenous that quails | N |
| Flesh by its craven thirsts and fears distraught | B |
| The spirit leaps alight | B |
| Doubts not in them is he | M |
| The binder of his sheaves the sane the right | B |
| Of magnitude to magnitude is wrought | B |
| To feel it large of the great life they hold | B |
| In them to come or vaster intervolved | B |
| The issues known in us our unsolved solved | B |
| That there with toil Life climbs the self same Tree | M |
| Whose roots enrichment have from ripeness dropped | B |
| So may we read and little find them cold | B |
| Let it but be the lord of Mind to guide | B |
| Our eyes no branch of Reason's growing lopped | B |
| Nor dreaming on a dream but fortified | B |
| By day to penetrate black midnight see | M |
| Hear feel outside the senses even that we | M |
| The specks of dust upon a mound of mould | B |
| We who reflect those rays though low our place | O |
| To them are lastingly allied | B |
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| So may we read and little find them cold | B |
| Not frosty lamps illumining dead space | O |
| Not distant aliens not senseless Powers | P |
| The fire is in them whereof we are born | Q |
| The music of their motion may be ours | P |
| Spirit shall deem them beckoning Earth and voiced | B |
| Sisterly to her in her beams rejoiced | B |
| Of love the grand impulsion we behold | B |
| The love that lends her grace | O |
| Among the starry fold | B |
| Then at new flood of customary morn | Q |
| Look at her through her showers | P |
| Her mists her streaming gold | B |
| A wonder edges the familiar face | O |
| She wears no more that robe of printed hours | P |
| Half strange seems Earth and sweeter than her flowers | P |
George Meredith
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