Invocation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDDDD A DFDGHHIIADAAD A JFKJFLMNNOLMMO A PPP QQQ DDD RRR STT UUU VFF DDD| I | A |
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| O Life O Death O God | B |
| Have I not striven | C |
| Have I not known thee God | B |
| As thy stars know Heaven | C |
| Have I not held thee true | D |
| True as thy deepest | E |
| Sweet and immaculate blue | D |
| Of nights that feel thy dew | D |
| Have I not known thee true | D |
| O God that keepest | D |
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| II | A |
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| O God my father God | D |
| Didst give me fire | F |
| To rise above the clod | D |
| And soar aspire | G |
| What tho' I strive and strive | H |
| And all my life says live | H |
| The sneerful scorn of men | I |
| But beats it down again | I |
| And O sun centered high | A |
| O God grand poet | D |
| Beneath thy tender sky | A |
| Each day new Keatses die | A |
| And thou dost know it | D |
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| III | A |
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| They know thee beautiful | J |
| They know thee bitter | F |
| And all their eyes are full | K |
| O God most beautiful | J |
| Of tears that glitter | F |
| Thou art above their tears | L |
| Thou art beyond their years | M |
| Thou sittest God of Hosts | N |
| Among thy glorious ghosts | N |
| So high and holy | O |
| And canst thou know the tears | L |
| The strivings and the fears | M |
| O God of godly peers | M |
| Of such so lowly | O |
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| IV | A |
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| They who were fondly fain | P |
| To tell what mother pain | P |
| Of Nature makes the rain | P |
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| They who were glad to know | Q |
| The sorrow of her snow | Q |
| Of her wild winds the woe | Q |
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| The magic of her light | D |
| The passion of her night | D |
| And of her death the might | D |
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| They who had tears and sighs | R |
| For every bud that dies | R |
| While the dew on it lies | R |
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| They who had utterance for | S |
| Each warm rose hearted star | T |
| That stammers from afar | T |
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| The demon of vast seas | U |
| The lips of lyric trees | U |
| Lays of sonorous bees | U |
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| The fragrance fays that dower | V |
| Each wildwood bosk and bower | F |
| With its faint musk of flower | F |
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| Of Time the feverish flight | D |
| Earth man and last man's right | D |
| To thee O Infinite | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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