The Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEEE FGEE HHGG IJKK HHCC LMNN| Whatever 'tis whose beauty here below | A |
| Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow | A |
| And wind and curl and wink and smile | B |
| Shifting thy gate and guile | B |
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| Though thy close commerce nought at all imbars | C |
| My present search for eagles eye not stars | C |
| And still the lesser by the best | D |
| And highest good is blest | D |
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| Yet seeing all things that subsist and be | E |
| Have their commissions from divinity | E |
| And teach us duty I will see | E |
| What man may learn from thee | E |
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| First I am sure the subject so respected | F |
| Is well dispos'd for bodies once infected | G |
| Deprav'd or dead can have with thee | E |
| No hold nor sympathy | E |
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| Next there's in it a restless pure desire | H |
| And longing for thy bright and vital fire | H |
| Desire that never will be quench'd | G |
| Nor can be writh'd nor wrench'd | G |
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| These are the magnets which so strongly move | I |
| And work all night upon thy light and love | J |
| As beauteous shapes we know not why | K |
| Command and guide the eye | K |
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| For where desire celestial pure desire | H |
| Hath taken root and grows and doth not tire | H |
| There God a commerce states and sheds | C |
| His secret on their heads | C |
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| This is the heart he craves and who so will | L |
| But give it him and grudge not he shall feel | M |
| That God is true as herbs unseen | N |
| Put on their youth and green | N |
Henry Vaughan
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