I Walk'd The Other Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDD EFFGECC HIIHHJJ KLMKKNO PEKPPML FQRFFSS TSSTTLL UVVULWX YZA2YB2C2D2

I walk'd the other day to spend my hourA
Into a fieldB
Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yieldB
A gallant flow'rC
But winter now had ruffled all the bow'rC
And curious storeD
I knew there heretoforeD
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Yet I whose search lov'd not to peep and peerE
I' th' face of thingsF
Thought with my self there might be other springsF
Besides this hereG
Which like cold friends sees us but once a yearE
And so the flow'rC
Might have some other bow'rC
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Then taking up what I could nearest spyH
I digg'd aboutI
That place where I had seen him to grow outI
And by and byH
I saw the warm recluse alone to lieH
Where fresh and greenJ
He liv'd of us unseenJ
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Many a question intricate and rareK
Did I there strowL
But all I could extort was that he nowM
Did there repairK
Such losses as befell him in this airK
And would ere longN
Come forth most fair and youngO
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This past I threw the clothes quite o'er his headP
And stung with fearE
Of my own frailty dropp'd down many a tearK
Upon his bedP
Then sighing whisper'd happy are the deadP
What peace doth nowM
Rock him asleep belowL
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And yet how few believe such doctrine springsF
From a poor rootQ
Which all the winter sleeps here under footR
And hath no wingsF
To raise it to the truth and light of thingsF
But is still trodS
By ev'ry wand'ring clodS
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O Thou whose spirit did at first inflameT
And warm the deadS
And by a sacred incubation fedS
With life this frameT
Which once had neither being form nor nameT
Grant I may soL
Thy steps track here belowL
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That in these masques and shadows I may seeU
Thy sacred wayV
And by those hid ascents climb to that dayV
Which breaks from TheeU
Who art in all things though invisiblyL
Shew me thy peaceW
Thy mercy love and easeX
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And from this care where dreams and sorrows reignY
Lead me aboveZ
Where light joy leisure and true comforts moveA2
Without all painY
There hid in thee shew me his life againB2
At whose dumb urnC2
Thus all the year I mournD2

Henry Vaughan



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