Gravity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FGHIG BJB A KLMNO PIQBI A RERSSE BCTCUV WXXYBY M ZA2B2A2C2 D2E2F2E BG2BG2B2E2B2E2H2MH2M WW| I | A |
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| Fit for perpetual worship is the power | B |
| That holds our bodies safely to the earth | C |
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| When people talk of their domestic gods | D |
| Then privately I think of You | E |
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| We ride through space upon your shoulders | F |
| Conveniently and lightly set | G |
| And so accustomed we relax our hold | H |
| Forget the gentle motion of your body | I |
| But You do not forget | G |
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| Sometimes you breathe a little faster | B |
| Or move a muscle | J |
| Then we remember you O Master | B |
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| II | A |
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| When people meet in reverent groups | K |
| And sing to their domestic God | L |
| You all the time dear tyrant How I laugh | M |
| Could without effort place your hand among them | N |
| And sprinkle them about the desert | O |
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| But all your ways are carefully ordered | P |
| For you have never questioned duty | I |
| We watch your everlasting combinations | Q |
| We call them Fate we turn them to our pleasure | B |
| And when they most delight us call them beauty | I |
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| III | A |
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| I rest my body on your grass | R |
| And let my brain repose in you | E |
| I feel these living moments pass | R |
| And from within myself to those far places | S |
| To be imagined in your times and spaces | S |
| Deliberate the various acts you do | E |
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| Sorting and re arranging worlds of Matter | B |
| Keenly and wisely Thus you brought our earth | C |
| Through stages and from purpose back to purpose | T |
| From fire to fog to dust to birth | C |
| Through beast to man who led himself to brain | U |
| Then you invoked him back to dust again | V |
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| By leave of you he places stone on stone | W |
| He scatters seed you are at once the prop | X |
| Among the long roots of his fragile crop | X |
| You manufacture for him and insure | Y |
| House harvest implement and furniture | B |
| And hold them all secure | Y |
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| IV | M |
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| The hill The trees From underneath | Z |
| I feel You pull me with your hand | A2 |
| Through my firm feet up to my heart | B2 |
| You hold me You are in the land | A2 |
| Reposing underneath the hill | C2 |
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| You keep my balance and my growth | D2 |
| I lift a foot but where I go | E2 |
| You follow you the ever strong | F2 |
| Control the smallest thing I do | E |
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| I have some little human power | B |
| To turn your purpose to my end | G2 |
| For which I thank you every hour | B |
| I stand at worship while you send | G2 |
| Thrills up my body to my heart | B2 |
| And I am all in love to know | E2 |
| How by your strength you keep me part | B2 |
| Of earth which cannot let me go | E2 |
| How everything I see around | H2 |
| Whether it can or cannot move | M |
| Is granted liberty of ground | H2 |
| And freedom to enjoy your love | M |
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| Though you are silent always and alone | W |
| To You yourself your power remains unknown | W |
Harold Edward Monro
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