The Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG FBFB HIHI JKLK M| One thing in all things have I seen | A |
| One thought has haunted earth and air | B |
| Clangour and silence both have been | C |
| Its palace chambers Everywhere | B |
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| I saw the mystic vision flow | D |
| And live in men and woods and streams | E |
| Until I could no longer know | D |
| The dream of life from my own dreams | E |
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| Sometimes it rose like fire in me | F |
| Within the depths of my own mind | G |
| And spreading to infinity | F |
| It took the voices of the wind | G |
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| It scrawled the human mystery | F |
| Dim heraldry on light and air | B |
| Wavering along the starry sea | F |
| I saw the flying vision there | B |
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| Each fire that in God's temple lit | H |
| Burns fierce before the inner shrine | I |
| Dimmed as my fire grew near to it | H |
| And darkened at the light of mine | I |
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| At last at last the meaning caught | J |
| When spirit wears its diadem | K |
| It shakes its wondrous plumes of thought | L |
| And trails the stars along with them | K |
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| April | M |
George William Russell
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