The Seer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJJJ AJAJ JKJK JLJL GMGM NKNK GJGJ NJNJ GOGP CKCK QJQJ KRKR QJQJ GJGJ JSJSJ KGKG CKCK GKGK QQQQ QBQB| WOULD I could waken numbers brighter sweeter | A |
| Than is the lark's song in the cloud above | B |
| Then would I tell you in befitting metre | A |
| How much the Seer is worthy of your love | B |
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| Shy sensitive is he and far from equal | C |
| Unto the battle of material life | D |
| He strives unheeded and too oft the sequel | C |
| Unheeded falleth in the bitter strife | D |
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| Averse to falsehood and pretences hollow | E |
| Averse to slander cruelty and wrong | F |
| He scorns the gilded car of pomp to follow | E |
| And underneath is trampled by the throng | F |
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| Too nobly strung of self to brook the mention | G |
| Too sweetly strung to give another pain | H |
| Too finely strung to pleasure in contention | G |
| He seeks within the meed he would obtain | H |
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| Unlike the crowd who never dare look inward | I |
| Lest they a hideous spectre there should meet | J |
| Would point to secret longings prompting sinward | J |
| He looks within and finds a solace sweet | J |
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| Ay in a conscience pure he sees a charmer | A |
| A harper from whose harp such tones are hurl'd | J |
| They act as mighty spells as tested armour | A |
| To shield him from the malice of the world | J |
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| 'Go on brave heart ' he hears an anthem chanted | J |
| The distant echoes of that harp's weird tones | K |
| 'Go on to thee a richer dower is granted | J |
| Than that which gilds a hundred monarchs' thrones | K |
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| 'Thou may'st be thrust aside and scorned and taunted | J |
| As being a lunatic a knave or fool | L |
| Thou hast within thy inner being planted | J |
| A power that yet shall put the world to school | L |
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| 'Thou rnay'st be destined here to tribulation | G |
| Thy every pang shall prove a key by which | M |
| Thou shalt unlock some safe of the Creation | G |
| And with its precious stores thy mind enrich | M |
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| 'Illumined by that sun forever burning | N |
| Deep in the centre of the inner spheres | K |
| Thou shalt be gifted with the gift of learning | N |
| What lieth hidden from thy mortal peers | K |
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| 'In every planet in the midnight heaven | G |
| In every hue doth in the rainbow blend | J |
| Shalt thou perceive a lore and meaning given | G |
| To very few on earth to comprehend | J |
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| 'The very flower upon the meadow blowing | N |
| The very weed down trampled on the road | J |
| Shall be to thee a priceless casquet glowing | N |
| With glories hinting of the light of God | J |
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| 'In every breezelet nay in the commotion | G |
| Of raging winds in every streamlet clear | O |
| Nay in the roaring of the mighty ocean | G |
| Shalt thou hear sounds will gladden thee to hear | P |
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| 'Thus shalt thou in the Universe external | C |
| The Universe internal read and so | K |
| Possess what shall be to the weal eternal | C |
| Of earth's benighted 'habitants to know | K |
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| 'The buried eons of the Past their history | Q |
| Still glows in characters that thou shalt read | J |
| And from the future thou shalt pluck its mystery | Q |
| And point the goal to where the moments lead | J |
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| 'Whatever thrills the heart with feelings precious | K |
| Whatever tends to cast the spirit down | R |
| The deed delightful or the hint pernicious | K |
| Shall claim withal in turn thy smile or frown | R |
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| 'Remind shalt thou the soul aweary weary | Q |
| Even with the battle thou thyself hast fought | J |
| How thro' deep failure and thro' toil uncheery | Q |
| Must every triumph worth his care be wrought | J |
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| 'Nay even at the hest of a volition | G |
| Still still to highest purposes attuned | J |
| Shalt thou go forth a monarch and ambition | G |
| And evils many with thy glance confound | J |
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| ''Woe ' black browed guilt shall cry and 'woe' and | J |
| vanish | S |
| Despair and desolation sisters sad | J |
| And for the hydra brood thou thus shalt banish | S |
| Celestial Love shall make the spirit glad | J |
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| 'Uplifting them by slow yet sure gradations | K |
| From spheres inferne into the spheres superne | G |
| Shalt thou thus prove a boon unto the nations | K |
| And in return a boon divine shalt earn | G |
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| 'If not in monuments of brass or marble | C |
| Deep in men's spirits shall thy glory glow | K |
| And little ones shall of the wonders warble | C |
| Accomplished by the wise man long ago | K |
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| 'All this and more than this shall be thy guerdon | G |
| The sense of having acted right ' So says | K |
| The happy echo of that harp's sweet burden | G |
| A certain Seraph in his bosom plays | K |
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| And this enableth the true seer ever | Q |
| To triumph tho' he falleth and to pray | Q |
| That theirs like his may be a portion never | Q |
| Who plot and plan to take his life away | Q |
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| Ah to the last his words and deeds are sweeter | Q |
| Than is the lark's song in the cloud above | B |
| And rare the bard could find befitting metre | Q |
| To hymn the love we owe this child of Love | B |
Joseph Skipsey
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