The Simple Line Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDEFGHG IAAJKLMFMLNOPQRRRFAR FSFRTUKVWXW RYZRRA2RJB2SC2D2TARS AE2F2G2RH2I2G2 J2RAARF2F2SK2L2RGGRF FAAAM2RRD2N2The secrets of the mind convene splendidly | A |
Though the mind is meek | B |
To be aware inwardly | A |
of brain and beauty | A |
Is dark too recognizable | C |
Thought looking out on thought | D |
Makes one an eye | E |
Which it shall be both decide | F |
One is with the mind alone | G |
The other is with other thoughts gone | H |
To be seen from afar and not known | G |
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When openly these inmost sights | I |
Flash and speak fully | A |
Each head at home shakes hopelessly | A |
Of being never ready to see self | J |
And sees a universe too soon | K |
The immense surmise swims round and round | L |
And heads grow wise | M |
With their own bigness beatified | F |
In cosmos and the idiot size | M |
Of skulls spells Nature on the ground | L |
While ears listening the wrong way report | N |
Echoes first and hear words before sounds | O |
Because the mind being quiet seems late | P |
By ears words are copied into books | Q |
By letters minds are taught self ignorance | R |
From mouths spring forth vocabularies | R |
To the assemblage of strange objects | R |
Grown foreign to the faithful countryside | F |
Of one king poverty | A |
Of one line humbleness | R |
Unavowed and false horizons claim pride | F |
For spaces in the head | S |
The native head sees outside | F |
The flood of wonder rushing from the eyes | R |
Returns lesson by lesson | T |
The mind shrunken of time | U |
Overflows too soon | K |
The complete vision is the same | V |
As when the world wideness began | W |
Worlds to describe | X |
The excessiveness of man | W |
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But man's right portion rejects | R |
The surplus in the whole | Y |
This much made secret first | Z |
Now makes | R |
The knowable which was | R |
Thought's previous flesh | A2 |
And gives instruction of substance to its intelligence | R |
As far as flesh itself | J |
As bodies upon themselves to where | B2 |
Understanding is the head | S |
And the identity of breath and breathing are established | C2 |
And the voice opening to cry I know | D2 |
Closes around the entire declaration | T |
With this evidence of immortality | A |
The total silence to say | R |
I am dead | S |
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For death is all ugly all lovely | A |
Forbids mysteries to make | E2 |
Science of splendor or any separate disclosing | F2 |
Of beauty to the mind out of body's book | G2 |
That page by page flutters a world in fragments | R |
Permits no scribbling in of more | H2 |
Where spaces are | I2 |
Only to look | G2 |
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Body as Body lies more than still | J2 |
The rest seems nothing and nothing is | R |
If nothing need be | A |
But if need be | A |
Thought not divided anyway | R |
Answers itself thinking | F2 |
All open and everything | F2 |
Dead is the mind that parted each head | S |
But now the secrets of the mind convene | K2 |
Without pride without pain | L2 |
To any onlookers | R |
What they ordain alone | G |
Cannot be known | G |
The ordinary way of eyes and ears | R |
But only prophesied | F |
If an unnatural mind refusing to divide | F |
Dies immediately | A |
Of too plain beauty | A |
Foreseen within too suddenly | A |
And lips break open of astonishment | M2 |
Upon the living mouth and rehearse | R |
Death that seems a simple verse | R |
And of all ways to know | D2 |
Dead or alive easiest | N2 |
Laura (riding) Jackson
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