Soliloquy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNOPPQQLLRSHere's a beautiful earth and a wonderful sky | A |
And to see them God gives us a heart and an eye | A |
Nor leaves us untouch'd by the pleasure they yield | B |
Like the fowls of the heaven or the beasts of the field | B |
The soul though encumber'd with sense and with sin | C |
Can range through her own mystic chambers within | C |
Then soar like the eagle to regions of light | D |
And dart wondrous thoughts on the stars of the night | D |
Yea more it is gifted with vision so keen | E |
As to know the unknown and to see the unseen | E |
To glance at eternity's numberless days | F |
Till dazzled confounded and lost in the maze | F |
Nor will this suffice it oh wonderful germ | G |
Of infinite blessings vouchsafed to a worm | G |
It quickens it rises with boundless desires | H |
And heaven is the lowest to which it aspires | H |
Such such is the soul though bewilder'd and dark | I |
A vital ethereal unquenchable spark | I |
Thus onward and upward by nature it tends | J |
Then wherefore descends it ah whither descends | J |
Soon droops its light pinion borne down by a gust | K |
It flutters it flutters it cleaves to the dust | K |
Then feeds upon ashes deceived and astray | L |
And fastens and clings to this perishing clay | L |
For robes that too proud were the lilies to wear | M |
For food we divide with the fowls of the air | M |
For joy that just sparkles and then disappears | N |
We drop from heaven's gate to this valley of tears | O |
How tranquil and blameless the pleasures it sought | P |
While it rested within the calm region of thought | P |
How fraught with disgust and how sullied with woe | Q |
Is all that detains and beguiles it below | Q |
Oh Thou who when silent and senseless it lay | L |
Didst breathe into life the inanimate clay | L |
Now nourish and quicken the languishing fire | R |
And fan to a flame that shall never expire | S |
Jane Taylor
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