Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGFFFFHHIIFFJJ KKFFKKKKLL FFMFFFFFKKNNKK OOKKKKLLPP HQKKFFFFGGFFRR KKLL| Grasshopper your fairy song | A |
| And my poem alike belong | A |
| To the dark and silent earth | B |
| From which all poetry has birth | B |
| All we say and all we sing | C |
| Is but as the murmuring | C |
| Of that drowsy heart of hers | D |
| When from her deep dream she stirs | D |
| If we sorrow or rejoice | E |
| You and I are but her voice | E |
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| Deftly does the dust express | F |
| In mind her hidden loveliness | F |
| And from her cool silence stream | G |
| The cricket's cry and Dante's dream | G |
| For the earth that breeds the trees | F |
| Breeds cities too and symphonies | F |
| Equally her beauty flows | F |
| Into a savior or a rose | F |
| Looks down in dream and from above | H |
| Smiles at herself in Jesus' love | H |
| Christ's love and Homer's art | I |
| Are but the workings of her heart | I |
| Through Leonardo's hand she seeks | F |
| Herself and through Beethoven speaks | F |
| In holy thunderings around | J |
| The awful message of the ground | J |
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| The serene and humble mold | K |
| Does in herself all selves enfold | K |
| Kingdoms destinies and creeds | F |
| Great dreams and dauntless deeds | F |
| Science that metes the firmament | K |
| The high inflexible intent | K |
| Of one for many sacrificed | K |
| Plato's brain the heart of Christ | K |
| All love all legend and all lore | L |
| Are in the dust forevermore | L |
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| Even as the growing grass | F |
| Up from the soil religions pass | F |
| And the field that bears the rye | M |
| Bears parables and prophecy | F |
| Out of the earth the poem grows | F |
| Like the lily or the rose | F |
| And all man is or yet may be | F |
| Is but herself in agony | F |
| Toiling up the steep ascent | K |
| Toward the complete accomplishment | K |
| When all dust shall be the whole | N |
| Universe one conscious soul | N |
| Yea the quiet and cool sod | K |
| Bears in her breast the dream of God | K |
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| If you would know what earth is scan | O |
| The intricate proud heart of man | O |
| Which is the earth articulate | K |
| And learn how holy and how great | K |
| How limitless and how profound | K |
| Is the nature of the ground | K |
| How without terror or demur | L |
| We may entrust ourselves to her | L |
| When we are wearied out and lay | P |
| Our faces in the common clay | P |
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| For she is pity she is love | H |
| All wisdom she all thoughts that move | Q |
| About her everlasting breast | K |
| Till she gathers them to rest | K |
| All tenderness of all the ages | F |
| Seraphic secrets of the sages | F |
| Vision and hope of all the seers | F |
| All prayer all anguish and all tears | F |
| Are but the dust that from her dream | G |
| Awakes and knows herself supreme | G |
| Are but earth when she reveals | F |
| All that her secret heart conceals | F |
| Down in the dark and silent loam | R |
| Which is ourselves asleep at home | R |
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| Yea and this my poem too | K |
| Is part of her as dust and dew | K |
| Wherein herself she doth declare | L |
| Through my lips and say her prayer | L |
John Hall Wheelock
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