Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDCBEFCGCHCCAICJC KLMNFOCPQRSCCJFCTCCU FAFVWXYZCCCFFA2C| HAIL holy light ofspring of Heav'n first born | A |
| Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam | B |
| May I express thee unblam'd since God is light | C |
| And never but in unapproached light | C |
| Dwelt from Eternitie dwelt then in thee | D |
| Bright effluence of bright essence increate | C |
| Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream | B |
| Whose Fountain who shall tell before the Sun | E |
| Before the Heavens thou wert and at the voice | F |
| Of God as with a Mantle didst invest | C |
| The rising world of waters dark and deep | G |
| Won from the void and formless infinite | C |
| Thee I re visit now with bolder wing | H |
| Escap't the Stygian Pool though long detain'd | C |
| In that obscure sojourn while in my flight | C |
| Through utter and through middle darkness borne | A |
| With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre | I |
| I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night | C |
| Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down | J |
| The dark descent and up to reascend | C |
| Though hard and rare thee I revisit safe | K |
| And feel thy sovran vital Lamp but thou | L |
| Revisit'st not these eyes that rowle in vain | M |
| To find thy piercing ray and find no dawn | N |
| So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs | F |
| Or dim suffusion veild Yet not the more | O |
| Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt | C |
| Cleer Spring or shadie Grove or Sunnie Hill | P |
| Smit with the love of sacred song but chief | Q |
| Thee Sion and the flowrie Brooks beneath | R |
| That wash thy hallowd feet and warbling flow | S |
| Nightly I visit nor somtimes forget | C |
| Those other two equal'd with me in Fate | C |
| So were I equal'd with them in renown | J |
| Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides | F |
| And Tiresias and Phineus Prophets old | C |
| Then feed on thoughts that voluntarie move | T |
| Harmonious numbers as the wakeful Bird | C |
| Sings darkling and in shadiest Covert hid | C |
| Tunes her nocturnal Note Thus with the Year | U |
| Seasons return but not to me returns | F |
| Day or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn | A |
| Or sight of vernal bloom or Summers Rose | F |
| Or flocks or herds or human face divine | V |
| But cloud in stead and ever during dark | W |
| Surrounds me from the chearful waies of men | X |
| Cut off and for the Book of knowledg fair | Y |
| Presented with a Universal blanc | Z |
| Of Natures works to mee expung'd and ras'd | C |
| And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out | C |
| So much the rather thou Celestial light | C |
| Shine inward and the mind through all her powers | F |
| Irradiate there plant eyes all mist from thence | F |
| Purge and disperse that I may see and tell | A2 |
| Of things invisible to mortal sight | C |
John Milton
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