The Simple Line Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDEFGHG IAAJKLMFMLNOPQRRRFAR FSFRTUKVWXW RYZRRA2RJB2SC2D2TARS AE2F2G2RH2I2G2 J2RAARF2F2SK2L2RGGRF FAAAM2RRD2N2

The secrets of the mind convene splendidlyA
Though the mind is meekB
To be aware inwardlyA
of brain and beautyA
Is dark too recognizableC
Thought looking out on thoughtD
Makes one an eyeE
Which it shall be both decideF
One is with the mind aloneG
The other is with other thoughts goneH
To be seen from afar and not knownG
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When openly these inmost sightsI
Flash and speak fullyA
Each head at home shakes hopelesslyA
Of being never ready to see selfJ
And sees a universe too soonK
The immense surmise swims round and roundL
And heads grow wiseM
With their own bigness beatifiedF
In cosmos and the idiot sizeM
Of skulls spells Nature on the groundL
While ears listening the wrong way reportN
Echoes first and hear words before soundsO
Because the mind being quiet seems lateP
By ears words are copied into booksQ
By letters minds are taught self ignoranceR
From mouths spring forth vocabulariesR
To the assemblage of strange objectsR
Grown foreign to the faithful countrysideF
Of one king povertyA
Of one line humblenessR
Unavowed and false horizons claim prideF
For spaces in the headS
The native head sees outsideF
The flood of wonder rushing from the eyesR
Returns lesson by lessonT
The mind shrunken of timeU
Overflows too soonK
The complete vision is the sameV
As when the world wideness beganW
Worlds to describeX
The excessiveness of manW
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But man's right portion rejectsR
The surplus in the wholeY
This much made secret firstZ
Now makesR
The knowable which wasR
Thought's previous fleshA2
And gives instruction of substance to its intelligenceR
As far as flesh itselfJ
As bodies upon themselves to whereB2
Understanding is the headS
And the identity of breath and breathing are establishedC2
And the voice opening to cry I knowD2
Closes around the entire declarationT
With this evidence of immortalityA
The total silence to sayR
I am deadS
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For death is all ugly all lovelyA
Forbids mysteries to makeE2
Science of splendor or any separate disclosingF2
Of beauty to the mind out of body's bookG2
That page by page flutters a world in fragmentsR
Permits no scribbling in of moreH2
Where spaces areI2
Only to lookG2
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Body as Body lies more than stillJ2
The rest seems nothing and nothing isR
If nothing need beA
But if need beA
Thought not divided anywayR
Answers itself thinkingF2
All open and everythingF2
Dead is the mind that parted each headS
But now the secrets of the mind conveneK2
Without pride without painL2
To any onlookersR
What they ordain aloneG
Cannot be knownG
The ordinary way of eyes and earsR
But only prophesiedF
If an unnatural mind refusing to divideF
Dies immediatelyA
Of too plain beautyA
Foreseen within too suddenlyA
And lips break open of astonishmentM2
Upon the living mouth and rehearseR
Death that seems a simple verseR
And of all ways to knowD2
Dead or alive easiestN2

Laura (riding) Jackson



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