From Unbelief To Belief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBBDEFF GHBBBBIBBBB AABJJJBBBBKLMNB BBBBBBWhy come ye here to sigh that I | A |
Who with crossed wrists so peaceless lie | A |
Before ye am at rest at rest | B |
For that the pistons of my blood | C |
No more in this machinery thud | C |
And on these eyes that once were blest | B |
With magnetism of fire are prest | B |
Thin damp pale eyelids for a sheath | D |
Whereon the bony claw of Death | E |
Hath set his coins of unseen lead | F |
Stamped with the image of his head | F |
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Why come ye here to weep for one | G |
Who is forgotten when he's gone | H |
From ye and burthened with this rest | B |
Your God hath given him unsought | B |
Of any prayers whiles yet he wrought | B |
And with what sacrifices bought | B |
Low sweet communion mouth to mouth | I |
Of thoughts that dewed eternal drought | B |
Of Life's bald barrenness a jest | B |
An irony hath grown confessed | B |
When he's at rest when he's at rest | B |
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Why come ye fools ye lie ye lie | A |
Rashly the grave for such as I | A |
Hath naught that lies as near this rest | B |
As your high Heaven lies near your Hell | J |
I see why now that it is well | J |
That men but know the husk like shell | J |
Which like a fruit the being kept | B |
That swinked and sported woke and slept | B |
From which that stern essential stept | B |
That ichor veined inhabitant | B |
Who makes me all myself in all | K |
My moods the I original | L |
That holds one orbit like a star | M |
Distinct to which a similar | N |
There never was and be there can't | B |
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And as it is it is the best | B |
That Death hath my poor body dressed | B |
In such fair semblance of a rest | B |
Which soothes the hearts of those distressed | B |
But God unto the dead the jest | B |
Of this his rest of this his rest | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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