Raphael Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJIJ KLKM NONO PQPQ RSRS PTPT UBQB TKTK PQPQ VSVS WRXR YZYZ A2QA2Q B2C2B2Y D2E2D2E2 F2RG2R| I shall not soon forget that sight | A |
| The glow of Autumn's westering day | B |
| A hazy warmth a dreamy light | A |
| On Raphael's picture lay | B |
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| It was a simple print I saw | C |
| The fair face of a musing boy | D |
| Yet while I gazed a sense of awe | E |
| Seemed blending with my joy | D |
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| A simple print the graceful flow | F |
| Of boyhood's soft and wavy hair | G |
| And fresh young lip and cheek and brow | H |
| Unmarked and clear were there | G |
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| Yet through its sweet and calm repose | I |
| I saw the inward spirit shine | J |
| It was as if before me rose | I |
| The white veil of a shrine | J |
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| As if as Gothland's sage has told | K |
| The hidden life the man within | L |
| Dissevered from its frame and mould | K |
| By mortal eye were seen | M |
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| Was it the lifting of that eye | N |
| The waving of that pictured hand | O |
| Loose as a cloud wreath on the sky | N |
| I saw the walls expand | O |
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| The narrow room had vanished space | P |
| Broad luminous remained alone | Q |
| Through which all hues and shapes of grace | P |
| And beauty looked or shone | Q |
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| Around the mighty master came | R |
| The marvels which his pencil wrought | S |
| Those miracles of power whose fame | R |
| Is wide as human thought | S |
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| There drooped thy more than mortal face | P |
| O Mother beautiful and mild | T |
| Enfolding in one dear embrace | P |
| Thy Saviour and thy Child | T |
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| The rapt brow of the Desert John | U |
| The awful glory of that day | B |
| When all the Father's brightness shone | Q |
| Through manhood's veil of clay | B |
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| And midst gray prophet forms and wild | T |
| Dark visions of the days of old | K |
| How sweetly woman's beauty smiled | T |
| Through locks of brown and gold | K |
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| There Fornarina's fair young face | P |
| Once more upon her lover shone | Q |
| Whose model of an angel's grace | P |
| He borrowed from her own | Q |
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| Slow passed that vision from my view | V |
| But not the lesson which it taught | S |
| The soft calm shadows which it threw | V |
| Still rested on my thought | S |
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| The truth that painter bard and sage | W |
| Even in Earth's cold and changeful clime | R |
| Plant for their deathless heritage | X |
| The fruits and flowers of time | R |
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| We shape ourselves the joy or fear | Y |
| Of which the coming life is made | Z |
| And fill our Future's atmosphere | Y |
| With sunshine or with shade | Z |
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| The tissue of the Life to be | A2 |
| We weave with colors all our own | Q |
| And in the field of Destiny | A2 |
| We reap as we have sown | Q |
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| Still shall the soul around it call | B2 |
| The shadows which it gathered here | C2 |
| And painted on the eternal wall | B2 |
| The Past shall reappear | Y |
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| Think ye the notes of holy song | D2 |
| On Milton's tuneful ear have died | E2 |
| Think ye that Raphael's angel throng | D2 |
| Has vanished from his side | E2 |
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| Oh no We live our life again | F2 |
| Or warmly touched or coldly dim | R |
| The pictures of the Past remain | G2 |
| Man's works shall follow him | R |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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