The Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEB FGFGFG HIJIHK FAFAFA LMLMLG NOPONO QRQRQR| I SAW but once that lovely one | A |
| Nor need I see her twice to love | B |
| She broke upon me like the dawn | C |
| And o'er my soul her magic wove | D |
| Yea forced the lion stern to own | E |
| Himself the captive of the dove | B |
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| She brought the morn she left the night | F |
| Nor strove I to throw off the chain | G |
| But rather felt a sweet delight | F |
| To intermingle with the pain | G |
| That made my heart's repose a blight | F |
| Till madness ruled my thought's domain | G |
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| By night I sought a solitude | H |
| And gave unto the winds a grief | I |
| That struggled like the lava flood | J |
| That boils and struggles for relief | I |
| And night still left me in a mood | H |
| Unto the voice of reason deaf | K |
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| The radiant planets in their flight | F |
| And she the quiet Queen of heaven | A |
| With glory garmented the night | F |
| But not to them the power was given | A |
| To kill but rather nurse the blight | F |
| By which afar my peace was driven | A |
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| Yet wished I not the sun to rise | L |
| For then the world were up and then | M |
| Were I exposed to wistful eyes | L |
| And questions bold of forward men | M |
| Who deem themselves both good and wise | L |
| Yet neither know nor pity pain | G |
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| And what on earth ay what in hell | N |
| Can be more racking to the thought | O |
| Than that our pangs unspeakable | P |
| Should disregarded be as nought | O |
| Or look's upon with looks that tell | N |
| In vain would sympathy be sought | O |
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| The magic vision fled and so | Q |
| Have all those precious feelings all | R |
| Which gave to life a golden glow | Q |
| Which made a joy this earthly ball | R |
| And now what's left to me what oh | Q |
| What but a cup of very gall | R |
Joseph Skipsey
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