Benjamin Peirce Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG GGGG HHGG GGII JJKK EELL MMNN OOPP| ASTRONOMER MATHEMATICIAN | A |
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| FOR him the Architect of all | B |
| Unroofed our planet's starlit hall | B |
| Through voids unknown to worlds unseen | C |
| His clearer vision rose serene | C |
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| With us on earth he walked by day | D |
| His midnight path how far away | D |
| We knew him not so well who knew | E |
| The patient eyes his soul looked through | E |
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| For who his untrod realm could share | F |
| Of us that breathe this mortal air | F |
| Or camp in that celestial tent | G |
| Whose fringes gild our firmament | G |
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| How vast the workroom where he brought | G |
| The viewless implements of thought | G |
| The wit how subtle how profound | G |
| That Nature's tangled webs unwound | G |
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| That through the clouded matrix saw | H |
| The crystal planes of shaping law | H |
| Through these the sovereign skill that planned | G |
| The Father's care the Master's hand | G |
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| To him the wandering stars revealed | G |
| The secrets in their cradle sealed | G |
| The far off frozen sphere that swings | I |
| Through ether zoned with lucid rings | I |
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| The orb that rolls in dim eclipse | J |
| Wide wheeling round its long ellipse | J |
| His name Urania writes with these | K |
| And stamps it on her Pleiades | K |
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| We knew him not Ah well we knew | E |
| The manly soul so brave so true | E |
| The cheerful heart that conquered age | L |
| The childlike silver bearded sage | L |
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| No more his tireless thought explores | M |
| The azure sea with golden shores | M |
| Rest wearied frame I the stars shall keep | N |
| A loving watch where thou shalt sleep | N |
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| Farewell the spirit needs must rise | O |
| So long a tenant of the skies | O |
| Rise to that home all worlds above | P |
| Whose sun is God whose light is love | P |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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