Soliloquy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNOPPQQLLRS

Here's a beautiful earth and a wonderful skyA
And to see them God gives us a heart and an eyeA
Nor leaves us untouch'd by the pleasure they yieldB
Like the fowls of the heaven or the beasts of the fieldB
The soul though encumber'd with sense and with sinC
Can range through her own mystic chambers withinC
Then soar like the eagle to regions of lightD
And dart wondrous thoughts on the stars of the nightD
Yea more it is gifted with vision so keenE
As to know the unknown and to see the unseenE
To glance at eternity's numberless daysF
Till dazzled confounded and lost in the mazeF
Nor will this suffice it oh wonderful germG
Of infinite blessings vouchsafed to a wormG
It quickens it rises with boundless desiresH
And heaven is the lowest to which it aspiresH
Such such is the soul though bewilder'd and darkI
A vital ethereal unquenchable sparkI
Thus onward and upward by nature it tendsJ
Then wherefore descends it ah whither descendsJ
Soon droops its light pinion borne down by a gustK
It flutters it flutters it cleaves to the dustK
Then feeds upon ashes deceived and astrayL
And fastens and clings to this perishing clayL
For robes that too proud were the lilies to wearM
For food we divide with the fowls of the airM
For joy that just sparkles and then disappearsN
We drop from heaven's gate to this valley of tearsO
How tranquil and blameless the pleasures it soughtP
While it rested within the calm region of thoughtP
How fraught with disgust and how sullied with woeQ
Is all that detains and beguiles it belowQ
Oh Thou who when silent and senseless it layL
Didst breathe into life the inanimate clayL
Now nourish and quicken the languishing fireR
And fan to a flame that shall never expireS

Jane Taylor



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