Fourth Sunday In Advent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBCB DEDE FAFG HIHI DDDD JDJD KLML DDDD BDBD IBIB FDFD DDDD FNHN OPOP DQDQ| The eyes of them that see shall not be dim and the ears of | A |
| them that hear shall hearken Isaiah xxxii | B |
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| Of the bright things in earth and air | C |
| How little can the heart embrace | B |
| Soft shades and gleaming lights are there | C |
| I know it well but cannot trace | B |
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| Mine eye unworthy seems to read | D |
| One page of Nature's beauteous book | E |
| It lies before me fair outspread | D |
| I only cast a wishful look | E |
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| I cannot paint to Memory's eye | F |
| The scene the glance I dearest love | A |
| Unchanged themselves in me they die | F |
| Or faint or false their shadows prove | G |
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| In vain with dull and tuneless ear | H |
| I linger by soft Music's cell | I |
| And in my heart of hearts would hear | H |
| What to her own she deigns to tell | I |
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| 'Tis misty all both sight and sound | D |
| I only know 'tis fair and sweet | D |
| 'Tis wandering on enchanted ground | D |
| With dizzy brow and tottering feet | D |
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| But patience there may come a time | J |
| When these dull ears shall scan aright | D |
| Strains that outring Earth's drowsy chime | J |
| As Heaven outshines the taper's light | D |
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| These eyes that dazzled now and weak | K |
| At glancing motes in sunshine wink | L |
| Shall see the Kings full glory break | M |
| Nor from the blissful vision shrink | L |
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| In fearless love and hope uncloyed | D |
| For ever on that ocean bright | D |
| Empowered to gaze and undestroyed | D |
| Deeper and deeper plunge in light | D |
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| Though scarcely now their laggard glance | B |
| Reach to an arrow's flight that day | D |
| They shall behold and not in trance | B |
| The region very far away | D |
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| If Memory sometimes at our spell | I |
| Refuse to speak or speak amiss | B |
| We shall not need her where we dwell | I |
| Ever in sight of all our bliss | B |
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| Meanwhile if over sea or sky | F |
| Some tender lights unnoticed fleet | D |
| Or on loved features dawn and die | F |
| Unread to us their lesson sweet | D |
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| Yet are there saddening sights around | D |
| Which Heaven in mercy spares us too | D |
| And we see far in holy ground | D |
| If duly purged our mental view | D |
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| The distant landscape draws not nigh | F |
| For all our gazing but the soul | N |
| That upward looks may still descry | H |
| Nearer each day the brightening goal | N |
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| And thou too curious ear that fain | O |
| Wouldst thread the maze of Harmony | P |
| Content thee with one simple strain | O |
| The lowlier sure the worthier thee | P |
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| Till thou art duly trained and taught | D |
| The concord sweet of Love divine | Q |
| Then with that inward Music fraught | D |
| For ever rise and sing and shine | Q |
John Keble
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