I Walk'd The Other Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDD EFFGECC HIIHHJJ KLMKKNO PEKPPML FQRFFSS TSSTTLL UVVULWX YZA2YB2C2D2I walk'd the other day to spend my hour | A |
Into a field | B |
Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield | B |
A gallant flow'r | C |
But winter now had ruffled all the bow'r | C |
And curious store | D |
I knew there heretofore | D |
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Yet I whose search lov'd not to peep and peer | E |
I' th' face of things | F |
Thought with my self there might be other springs | F |
Besides this here | G |
Which like cold friends sees us but once a year | E |
And so the flow'r | C |
Might have some other bow'r | C |
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Then taking up what I could nearest spy | H |
I digg'd about | I |
That place where I had seen him to grow out | I |
And by and by | H |
I saw the warm recluse alone to lie | H |
Where fresh and green | J |
He liv'd of us unseen | J |
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Many a question intricate and rare | K |
Did I there strow | L |
But all I could extort was that he now | M |
Did there repair | K |
Such losses as befell him in this air | K |
And would ere long | N |
Come forth most fair and young | O |
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This past I threw the clothes quite o'er his head | P |
And stung with fear | E |
Of my own frailty dropp'd down many a tear | K |
Upon his bed | P |
Then sighing whisper'd happy are the dead | P |
What peace doth now | M |
Rock him asleep below | L |
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And yet how few believe such doctrine springs | F |
From a poor root | Q |
Which all the winter sleeps here under foot | R |
And hath no wings | F |
To raise it to the truth and light of things | F |
But is still trod | S |
By ev'ry wand'ring clod | S |
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O Thou whose spirit did at first inflame | T |
And warm the dead | S |
And by a sacred incubation fed | S |
With life this frame | T |
Which once had neither being form nor name | T |
Grant I may so | L |
Thy steps track here below | L |
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That in these masques and shadows I may see | U |
Thy sacred way | V |
And by those hid ascents climb to that day | V |
Which breaks from Thee | U |
Who art in all things though invisibly | L |
Shew me thy peace | W |
Thy mercy love and ease | X |
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And from this care where dreams and sorrows reign | Y |
Lead me above | Z |
Where light joy leisure and true comforts move | A2 |
Without all pain | Y |
There hid in thee shew me his life again | B2 |
At whose dumb urn | C2 |
Thus all the year I mourn | D2 |
Henry Vaughan
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