Beyond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADCEFGGHFHFDHIIEJ KEJKLMMNEOOPPENNQQRS TRUVWVXXU| COLOSSAL orb of space | A |
| Sparkling with diamond | B |
| Of countless star on star | C |
| All whirling with wild grace | A |
| In their enwoven dance | D |
| Illimitably far | C |
| What lies beyond | E |
| Your vasty hollow girdled by that bright | F |
| River of stellar spray | G |
| We call the Milky Way | G |
| Immeasurable ball | H |
| Cornpassed and clasped in light | F |
| Can you be all | H |
| A flock of fireflies circling in the night | F |
| A maze of jewels that the toss of Chance | D |
| Let fall | H |
| Sun planet asteroid | I |
| One globe of glories in the utter void | I |
| What lies beyond | E |
| Does the sheer Dark immerse | J |
| Infinity drowning the last faint gold | K |
| Of fleeting comets lost and vagabond | E |
| Or is this astral universe | J |
| All that our utmost vision may behold | K |
| But one amidst a host of star strewn spheres | L |
| Each zoned with its own stream | M |
| Of softer gleam | M |
| Perchance each dowered with wonder love and tears | N |
| What lies beyond | E |
| The puny human heart still stirs | O |
| Against those flaming barriers | O |
| That proud impenetrable dome | P |
| Of fire and ether seeking for a home | P |
| A Soul that shall respond | E |
| To all its questions longings and despairs | N |
| Is space but raiment that the Spirit wears | N |
| A gem embroidered mantle to conceal | Q |
| And yet reveal | Q |
| In splendors of surprise | R |
| Beauty ineffable | S |
| Immanuel | T |
| Or shall we rise | R |
| Higher than dream of Dante ever trod | U |
| From star to star from empyrean on | V |
| To empyrean till the sun that shone | W |
| Over our vexed mortality be wan | V |
| Through life on life eternal range | X |
| From form to form from change to change | X |
| To find the Unknown God | U |
Katharine Lee Bates
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