Invocation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEFGG HHIIJK AALLMM NNOOHH| Through Thy clear spaces Lord of old | A |
| Formless and void the dead earth rolled | A |
| Deaf to Thy heaven's sweet music blind | B |
| To the great lights which o'er it shined | B |
| No sound no ray no warmth no breath | C |
| A dumb despair a wandering death | C |
| - | |
| To that dark weltering horror came | D |
| Thy spirit like a subtle flame | D |
| A breath of life electrical | E |
| Awakening and transforming all | F |
| Till beat and thrilled in every part | G |
| The pulses of a living heart | G |
| - | |
| Then knew their bounds the land and sea | H |
| Then smiled the bloom of mead and tree | H |
| From flower to moth from beast to man | I |
| The quick creative impulse ran | I |
| And earth with life from thee renewed | J |
| Was in thy holy eyesight good | K |
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| As lost and void as dark and cold | A |
| And formless as that earth of old | A |
| A wandering waste of storm and night | L |
| Midst spheres of song and realms of light | L |
| A blot upon thy holy sky | M |
| Untouched unwarned of thee am I | M |
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| O Thou who movest on the deep | N |
| Of spirits wake my own from sleep | N |
| Its darkness melt its coldness warm | O |
| The lost restore the ill transform | O |
| That flower and fruit henceforth may be | H |
| Its grateful offering worthy Thee | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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