Invocation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDDDD A DFDGHHIIADAAD A JFKJFLMNNOLMMO A PPP QQQ DDD RRR STT UUU VFF DDDI | 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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