That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAACCADEFEGEEHHHII IJJJ| Cloud puffball torn tufts tossed pillows 'flaunt forth then chevy on an air | A |
| built thoroughfare heaven roysterers in gay gangs' they throng they glitter in marches | B |
| Down roughcast down dazzling whitewash 'wherever an elm arches | C |
| Shivelights and shadowtackle in long' lashes lace lance and pair | A |
| Delightfully the bright wind boisterous 'ropes wrestles beats earth bare | A |
| Of yestertempest's creases in pool and rut peel parches | C |
| Squandering ooze to squeezed' dough crust dust stanches starches | C |
| Squadroned masks and manmarks 'treadmire toil there | A |
| Footfretted in it Million fuel egrave d ' nature's bonfire burns on | D |
| But quench her bonniest dearest 'to her her clearest selv egrave d spark | E |
| Man how fast his firedint ' his mark on mind is gone | F |
| Both are in an unfathomable all is in an enormous dark | E |
| Drowned O pity and indig 'nation Manshape that shone | G |
| Sheer off disseveral a star ' death blots black out nor mark | E |
| Is any of him at all so stark | E |
| But vastness blurs and time 'beats level Enough the Resurrection | H |
| A heart's clarion Away grief's gasping ' joyless days dejection | H |
| Across my foundering deck shone | H |
| A beacon an eternal beam 'Flesh fade and mortal trash | I |
| Fall to the residuary worm ' world's wildfire leave but ash | I |
| In a flash at a trumpet crash | I |
| I am all at once what Christ is 'since he was what I am and | J |
| This Jack joke poor potsherd ' patch matchwood immortal diamond | J |
| Is immortal diamond | J |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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