From Unbelief To Belief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBBDEFF GHBBBBIBBBB AABJJJBBBBKLMNB BBBBBB| Why 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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