Ode To Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDEDEFFG HHICICJJJ KLCCCCMMM BNNOCOCPPP BQQHBHBRRR SSTUTUVWV TX YYII UUX U UU| CHORUS OF SPIRITS | A |
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| FIRST SPIRIT | B |
| Palace roof of cloudless nights | C |
| Paradise of golden lights | C |
| Deep immeasurable vast | D |
| Which art now and which wert then | E |
| Of the Present and the Past | D |
| Of the eternal Where and When | E |
| Presence chamber temple home | F |
| Ever canopying dome | F |
| Of acts and ages yet to come | G |
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| Glorious shapes have life in thee | H |
| Earth and all earth s company | H |
| Living globes which ever throng | I |
| Thy deep chasms and wildernesses | C |
| And green worlds that glide along | I |
| And swift stars with flashing tresses | C |
| And icy moons most cold and bright | J |
| And mighty suns beyond the night | J |
| Atoms of intensest light | J |
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| Even thy name is as a god | K |
| Heaven for thou art the abode | L |
| Of that Power which is the glass | C |
| Wherein man his nature sees | C |
| Generations as they pass | C |
| Worship thee with bended knees | C |
| Their unremaining gods and they | M |
| Like a river roll away | M |
| Thou remainest such alway | M |
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| SECOND SPIRIT | B |
| Thou art but the mind s first chamber | N |
| Round which its young fancies clamber | N |
| Like weak insects in a cave | O |
| Lighted up by stalactites | C |
| But the portal of the grave | O |
| Where a world of new delights | C |
| Will make thy best glories seem | P |
| But a dim and noonday gleam | P |
| From the shadow of a dream | P |
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| THIRD SPIRIT | B |
| Peace the abyss is wreathed with scorn | Q |
| At your presumption atom born | Q |
| What is Heaven and what are ye | H |
| Who its brief expanse inherit | B |
| What are suns and spheres which flee | H |
| With the instinct of that Spirit | B |
| Of which ye are but a part | R |
| Drops which Nature s mighty heart | R |
| Drives through thinnest veins Depart | R |
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| What is Heaven a globe of dew | S |
| Filling in the morning new | S |
| Some eyed flower whose young leaves waken | T |
| On an unimagined world | U |
| Constellated suns unshaken | T |
| Orbits measureless are furled | U |
| In that frail and fading sphere | V |
| With ten millions gathered there | W |
| To tremble gleam and disappear | V |
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| CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF THE ODE TO HEAVEN | T |
| Published by Mr C D Locock Examination etc | X |
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| The living frame which sustains my soul | Y |
| Is sinking beneath the fierce control | Y |
| Down through the lampless deep of song | I |
| I am drawn and driven along | I |
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| When a Nation screams aloud | U |
| Like an eagle from the cloud | U |
| When a | X |
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| When the night | U |
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| Watch the look askance and old | U |
| See neglect and falsehood fold | U |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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