Ode To Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDEDEFFG HHICICJJJ KLCCCCMMM BNNOCOCPPP BQQHBHBRRR SSTUTUVWV TX YYII UUX U UUCHORUS 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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