Inspiration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEDE FGFG HGHG IJIJ KHLH MHMH NONO HLHL PQRQ HCSC HTHT UVUV WXWX YEYE MZMZ HA2HA2 B2C2B2D2 E2A2E2A2 F2D2F2C2 G2H2I2H2| Whate'er we leave to God God does | A |
| And blesses us | B |
| The work we choose should be our own | C |
| God leaves alone | C |
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| If with light head erect I sing | D |
| Though all the Muses lend their force | E |
| From my poor love of anything | D |
| The verse is weak and shallow as its source | E |
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| But if with bended neck I grope | F |
| Listening behind me for my wit | G |
| With faith superior to hope | F |
| More anxious to keep back than forward it | G |
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| Making my soul accomplice there | H |
| Unto the flame my heart hath lit | G |
| Then will the verse forever wear | H |
| Time cannot bend the line which God hath writ | G |
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| Always the general show of things | I |
| Floats in review before my mind | J |
| And such true love and reverence brings | I |
| That sometimes I forget that I am blind | J |
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| But now there comes unsought unseen | K |
| Some clear divine electuary | H |
| And I who had but sensual been | L |
| Grow sensible and as God is am wary | H |
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| I hearing get who had but ears | M |
| And sight who had but eyes before | H |
| I moments live who lived but years | M |
| And truth discern who knew but learning's lore | H |
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| I hear beyond the range of sound | N |
| I see beyond the range of sight | O |
| New earths and skies and seas around | N |
| And in my day the sun doth pale his light | O |
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| A clear and ancient harmony | H |
| Pierces my soul through all its din | L |
| As through its utmost melody | H |
| Farther behind than they farther within | L |
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| More swift its bolt than lightning is | P |
| Its voice than thunder is more loud | Q |
| It doth expand my privacies | R |
| To all and leave me single in the crowd | Q |
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| It speaks with such authority | H |
| With so serene and lofty tone | C |
| That idle Time runs gadding by | S |
| And leaves me with Eternity alone | C |
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| Now chiefly is my natal hour | H |
| And only now my prime of life | T |
| Of manhood's strength it is the flower | H |
| 'Tis peace's end and war's beginning strife | T |
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| It comes in summer's broadest noon | U |
| By a grey wall or some chance place | V |
| Unseasoning Time insulting June | U |
| And vexing day with its presuming face | V |
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| Such fragrance round my couch it makes | W |
| More rich than are Arabian drugs | X |
| That my soul scents its life and wakes | W |
| The body up beneath its perfumed rugs | X |
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| Such is the Muse the heavenly maid | Y |
| The star that guides our mortal course | E |
| Which shows where life's true kernel's laid | Y |
| Its wheat's fine flour and its undying force | E |
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| She with one breath attunes the spheres | M |
| And also my poor human heart | Z |
| With one impulse propels the years | M |
| Around and gives my throbbing pulse its start | Z |
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| I will not doubt for evermore | H |
| Nor falter from a steadfast faith | A2 |
| For thought the system be turned o'er | H |
| God takes not back the word which once He saith | A2 |
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| I will not doubt the love untold | B2 |
| Which not my worth nor want has bought | C2 |
| Which wooed me young and woos me old | B2 |
| And to this evening hath me brought | D2 |
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| My memory I'll educate | E2 |
| To know the one historic truth | A2 |
| Remembering to the latest date | E2 |
| The only true and sole immortal youth | A2 |
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| Be but thy inspiration given | F2 |
| No matter through what danger sought | D2 |
| I'll fathom hell or climb to heaven | F2 |
| And yet esteem that cheap which love has bought | C2 |
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| Fame cannot tempt the bard | G2 |
| Who's famous with his God | H2 |
| Nor laurel him reward | I2 |
| Who has his Maker's nod | H2 |
Henry David Thoreau
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