Regeneration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFEG HIHIJKJK LMNODPDP JQJQIRIR SSSSESHS STSUVWXY SZSA2SB2SC2 SSSSSSSS SSSSSSSS SJSJSD2SD2E2E2| A | |
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| Award and still in bonds one day | B |
| I stole abroad | C |
| It was high spring and all the way | B |
| Primros'd and hung with shade | D |
| Yet was it frost within | E |
| And surly winds | F |
| Blasted my infant buds and sin | E |
| Like clouds eclips'd my mind | G |
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| Storm'd thus I straight perceiv'd my spring | H |
| Mere stage and show | I |
| My walk a monstrous mountain's thing | H |
| Rough cast with rocks and snow | I |
| And as a pilgrim's eye | J |
| Far from relief | K |
| Measures the melancholy sky | J |
| Then drops and rains for grief | K |
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| So sigh'd I upwards still at last | L |
| 'Twixt steps and falls | M |
| I reach'd the pinnacle where plac'd | N |
| I found a pair of scales | O |
| I took them up and laid | D |
| In th'one late pains | P |
| The other smoke and pleasures weigh'd | D |
| But prov'd the heavier grains | P |
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| With that some cried Away straight I | J |
| Obey'd and led | Q |
| Full east a fair fresh field could spy | J |
| Some call'd it Jacob's Bed | Q |
| A virgin soil which no | I |
| Rude feet ere trod | R |
| Where since he slept there only go | I |
| Prophets and friends of God | R |
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| Here I repos'd but scarce well set | S |
| A grove descried | S |
| Of stately height whose branches met | S |
| And mixed on every side | S |
| I entered and once in | E |
| Amaz'd to see't | S |
| Found all was chang'd and a new spring | H |
| Did all my senses greet | S |
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| The unthrift sun shot vital gold | S |
| A thousand pieces | T |
| And heaven its azure did unfold | S |
| Checker'd with snowy fleeces | U |
| The air was all in spice | V |
| And every bush | W |
| A garland wore thus fed my eyes | X |
| But all the ear lay hush | Y |
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| Only a little fountain lent | S |
| Some use for ears | Z |
| And on the dumb shades language spent | S |
| The music of her tears | A2 |
| I drew her near and found | S |
| The cistern full | B2 |
| Of diverse stones some bright and round | S |
| Others ill'shap'd and dull | C2 |
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| The first pray mark as quick as light | S |
| Danc'd through the flood | S |
| But th'last more heavy than the night | S |
| Nail'd to the center stood | S |
| I wonder'd much but tir'd | S |
| At last with thought | S |
| My restless eye that still desir'd | S |
| As strange an object brought | S |
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| It was a bank of flowers where I descried | S |
| Though 'twas mid'day | S |
| Some fast asleep others broad eyed | S |
| And taking in the ray | S |
| Here musing long I heard | S |
| A rushing wind | S |
| Which still increas'd but whence it stirr'd | S |
| No where I could not find | S |
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| I turn'd me round and to each shade | S |
| Dispatch'd an eye | J |
| To see if any leaf had made | S |
| Least motion or reply | J |
| But while I listening sought | S |
| My mind to ease | D2 |
| By knowing where 'twas or where not | S |
| It whispered Where I please | D2 |
| Lord then said I On me one breath | E2 |
| And let me die before my death | E2 |
Henry Vaughan
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