To One Consecrated Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDE BEBE FEFE| Your paths were all unknown to us | A |
| We were so far away from you | B |
| We mixed in thought your spirit thus | A |
| With whiteness stars of gold and dew | B |
| - | |
| The mighty mother nourished you | B |
| Her breath blew from her mystic bowers | C |
| Their elfin glimmer floated through | B |
| The pureness of your shadowy hours | C |
| - | |
| The mighty mother made you wise | D |
| Gave love that clears the hidden ways | E |
| Her glooms were glory to your eyes | D |
| Her darkness but the Fount of Days | E |
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| She made all gentleness in you | B |
| And beauty radiant as the morn's | E |
| She made our joy in yours then threw | B |
| Upon your head a crown of thorns | E |
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| Your eyes are filled with tender light | F |
| For those whose eyes are dim with tears | E |
| They see your brow is crowned and bright | F |
| But not its ring of wounding spears | E |
George William Russell
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