Contemplation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKLDMLNOPQ LRLS TUVWWXLLYZA2B2C2D2WE 2QIE2F2WG2H2LI2 J2LLCK2E2LL2A2 M2LLN2O2P2| 'They are all up the innumerable stars | A |
| And hold their place in heaven My eyes have been | B |
| Searching the pearly depths through which they spring | C |
| Like beautiful creations till I feel | D |
| As if it were a new and perfect world | E |
| Waiting in silence for the word of God | F |
| To breathe it into motion There they stand | G |
| Shining in order like a living hymn | H |
| Written in light awaking at the breath | I |
| Of the celestial dawn and praising Him | H |
| Who made them with the harmony of spheres | J |
| I would I had an angel's ear to list | K |
| That melody I would that I might float | L |
| Up in that boundless element and feel | D |
| Its ravishing vibrations like a pulse | M |
| Beating in heaven My spirit is athirst | L |
| For music rarer music I would bathe | N |
| My soul in a serener atmosphere | O |
| Than this I long to mingle with the flock | P |
| Led by the living waters and lie down | Q |
| In the green pastures of the better land | L |
| When wilt thou break dull fetter When shall I | R |
| Gather my wings and like a rushing thought | L |
| Stretch onward star by star up into heaven ' | S |
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| Thus mused Alethe She was one to whom | T |
| Life had been like the witching of a dream | U |
| Of an untroubled sweetness She was born | V |
| Of a high race and laid upon the knee | W |
| With her soft eye perusing listlessly | W |
| The fretted roof or on Mosaic floors | X |
| Grasped at the tessellated squares inwrought | L |
| With metals curiously Her childhood pass'd | L |
| Like faery amid fountains and green haunts | Y |
| Trying her little feet upon a lawn | Z |
| Of velvet evenness and hiding flowers | A2 |
| In her sweet bosom as it were a fair | B2 |
| And pearly altar to crush incense on | C2 |
| Her youth oh that was queenly She was like | D2 |
| A dream of poetry that may not be | W |
| Written or told exceeding beautiful | E2 |
| And so came worshippers and rank bow'd down | Q |
| And breathed upon her heart as with a breath | I |
| Of pride and bound her forehead gorgeously | E2 |
| With dazzling scorn and gave unto her step | F2 |
| A majesty as if she trod the sea | W |
| And the proud waves unbidden lifted her | G2 |
| And so she grew to woman her mere look | H2 |
| Strong as a monarch's signet and her hand | L |
| The ambition of a kingdom | I2 |
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| From all this | J2 |
| Turn'd her high heart away She had a mind | L |
| Deep and immortal and it would not feed | L |
| On pageantry She thirsted for a spring | C |
| Of a serener element and drank | K2 |
| Philosophy and for a little while | E2 |
| She was allay'd till presently it turn'd | L |
| Bitter within her and her spirit grew | L2 |
| Faint for undying waters | A2 |
| - | |
| Then she came | M2 |
| To the pure fount of God and is athirst | L |
| No more save when the fever of the world | L |
| Falleth upon her she will go sometimes | N2 |
| Out in the starlight quietness and breathe | O2 |
| A holy aspiration after heaven | P2 |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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