The Dark Companion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JJJJ KLKL AMCM DIDI JNJN DODO DPDP JJJJ| There is an orb that mocked the lore of sages | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Long time with mystery of strange unrest | B |
| The steadfast law that rounds the starry ages | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Gave doubtful token of supreme behest | B |
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| But they who knew the ways of God unchanging | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Concluded some far influence unseen | E |
| Some kindred sphere through viewless ethers ranging | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Whose strong persuasions spanned the void between | E |
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| And knowing it alone through perturbation | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And vague disquiet of another star | G |
| They named it till the day of revelation | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The Dark Companion darkly guessed afar | G |
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| But when through new perfection of appliance | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Faith merged at length in undisputed sight | I |
| The mystic mover was revealed to science | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No Dark Companion but a speck of light | I |
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| No Dark Companion but a sun of glory | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No fell disturber but a bright compeer | J |
| The shining complement that crowned the story | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The golden link that made the meaning clear | J |
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| Oh Dark Companion journeying ever by us | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Oh grim Perturber of our works and ways | L |
| Oh potent Dread unseen yet ever nigh us | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Disquieting all the tenor of our days | L |
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| Oh Dark Companion Death whose wide embraces | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp O'ertake remotest change of clime and skies | M |
| Oh Dark Companion Death whose grievous traces | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Are scattered shreds of riven enterprise | M |
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| Thou too in this wise when our eyes unsealing | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The clearer day shall change our faith to sight | I |
| Shalt show thyself in that supreme revealing | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No Dark Companion but a thing of light | I |
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| No ruthless wrecker of harmonious order | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No alien heart of discord and caprice | N |
| A beckoning light upon the Blissful Border | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp A kindred element of law and peace | N |
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| So too our strange unrest in this our dwelling | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The trembling that thou joinest with our mirth | O |
| Are but thy magnet communings compelling | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Our spirits farther from the scope of earth | O |
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| So doubtless when beneath thy potence swerving | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp 'Tis that thou lead'st us by a path unknown | P |
| Our seeming deviations all subserving | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The perfect orbit round the central throne | P |
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| The night wind moans The Austral wilds are round me | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The loved who live ah God how few they are | J |
| I looked above and heaven in mercy found me | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp This parable of comfort in a star | J |
James Brunton Stephens
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