Vanity Of Spirit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHHIIJJKKFF LMNNOOPQLLFFLL| Quite spent with thoughts I left my cell and lay | A |
| Where a shrill spring tuned to the early day | A |
| I begged here long and groaned to know | B |
| Who gave the clouds so brave a bow | C |
| Who bent the spheres and circled in | D |
| Corruption with this glorious ring | E |
| What is His name and how I might | F |
| Descry some part of His great light | F |
| I summoned nature pierced through all her store | G |
| Broke up some seals which none had touched before | G |
| Her womb her bosom and her head | H |
| Where all her secrets lay abed | H |
| I rifled quite and having passed | I |
| Through all her creatures came at last | I |
| To search myself where I did find | J |
| Traces and sounds of a strange kind | J |
| Here of this mighty spring I found some drills | K |
| With echoes beaten from the eternal hills | K |
| Weak beams and fires flashed to my sight | F |
| Like a young east or moonshine night | F |
| Which showed me in a nook cast by | L |
| A piece of much antiquity | M |
| With hieroglyphics quite dismembered | N |
| And broken letters scarce remembered | N |
| I took them up and much joyed went about | O |
| To unite those pieces hoping to find out | O |
| The mystery but this ne'er done | P |
| That little light I had was gone | Q |
| It grieved me much At last said I | L |
| Since in these veils my eclipsed eye | L |
| May not approach Thee for at night | F |
| Who can have commerce with the light | F |
| I'll disapparel and to buy | L |
| But one half glance mist gladly die | L |
Henry Vaughan
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