The Elements Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCABDEFEFD GHIIJHKLCLCK MMNOONBOOBPQ| MAN is permitted much | A |
| To scan and learn | B |
| In Nature s frame | C |
| Till he well nigh can tame | C |
| Brute mischiefs and can touch | A |
| Invisible things and turn | B |
| All warring ills to purposes of good | D |
| Thus as a god below | E |
| He can control | F |
| And harmonize what seems amiss to flow | E |
| As sever d from the whole | F |
| And dimly understood | D |
| - | |
| But o er the elements | G |
| One Hand alone | H |
| One Hand has sway | I |
| What influence day by day | I |
| In straiter belt prevents | J |
| The impious Ocean thrown | H |
| Alternate o er the ever sounding shore | K |
| Or who has eye to trace | L |
| How the Plague came | C |
| Forerun the doublings of the Tempest s race | L |
| Or the Air s weight and flame | C |
| On a set scale explore | K |
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| Thus God has will d | M |
| That man when fully skill d | M |
| Still gropes in twilight dim | N |
| Encompass d all his hours | O |
| By fearfullest powers | O |
| Inflexible to him | N |
| That so he may discern | B |
| His feebleness | O |
| And e en for earth s success | O |
| To Him in wisdom turn | B |
| Who holds for us the keys of either home | P |
| Earth and the world to come | Q |
John Henry Newman
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