Regeneration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFEG HIHIJKJK LMNODPDP JQJQIRIR SSSSESHS STSUVWXY SZSA2SB2SC2 SSSSSSSS SSSSSSSS SJSJSD2SD2E2E2A | |
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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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