The Water-fall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJHH KLMMNNOOPQBBRRSSTT| With what deep murmurs through time's silent stealth | A |
| Doth thy transparent cool and wat'ry wealth | A |
| Here flowing fall | B |
| And chide and call | B |
| As if his liquid loose retinue stay'd | C |
| Ling'ring and were of this steep place afraid | C |
| The common pass | D |
| Where clear as glass | D |
| All must descend | E |
| Not to an end | E |
| But quicken'd by this deep and rocky grave | F |
| Rise to a longer course more bright and brave | F |
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| Dear stream dear bank where often I | G |
| Have sate and pleas'd my pensive eye | G |
| Why since each drop of thy quick store | H |
| Runs thither whence it flow'd before | H |
| Should poor souls fear a shade or night | I |
| Who came sure from a sea of light | I |
| Or since those drops are all sent back | J |
| So sure to thee that none doth lack | J |
| Why should frail flesh doubt any more | H |
| That what God takes he'll not restore | H |
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| O useful element and clear | K |
| My sacred wash and cleanser here | L |
| My first consigner unto those | M |
| Fountains of life where the Lamb goes | M |
| What sublime truths and wholesome themes | N |
| Lodge in thy mystical deep streams | N |
| Such as dull man can never find | O |
| Unless that Spirit lead his mind | O |
| Which first upon thy face did move | P |
| And hatch'd all with his quick'ning love | Q |
| As this loud brook's incessant fall | B |
| In streaming rings restagnates all | B |
| Which reach by course the bank and then | R |
| Are no more seen just so pass men | R |
| O my invisible estate | S |
| My glorious liberty still late | S |
| Thou art the channel my soul seeks | T |
| Not this with cataracts and creeks | T |
Henry Vaughan
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