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 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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