From -paracelsus- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLM A MMMNOPQRNSTMUVRWXYMZ A2MMB2C2D2MME2RF2MXG 2RH2MI2PJ2K2L2M2DMN2 RRRMO2H2P2MQ2I | A |
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TRUTH is within ourselves it takes no rise | B |
From outward things whate er you may believe | C |
There is an inmost centre in us all | D |
Where truth abides in fullness and around | E |
Wall upon wall the gross flesh hems it in | F |
This perfect clear perception which is truth | G |
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh | H |
Binds it and makes all error and to KNOW | I |
Rather consists in opening out a way | J |
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape | K |
Than in effecting entry for a light | L |
Supposed to be without | M |
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II | A |
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I knew I felt perception unexpressed | M |
Uncomprehended by our narrow thought | M |
But somehow felt and known in every shift | M |
And change in the spirit nay in every pore | N |
Of the body even what God is what we are | O |
What life is how God tastes an infinite joy | P |
In infinite ways one everlasting bliss | Q |
From whom all being emanates all power | R |
Proceeds in whom is life for evermore | N |
Yet whom existence in its lowest form | S |
Includes where dwells enjoyment there is he | T |
With still a flying point of bliss remote | M |
A happiness in store afar a sphere | U |
Of distant glory in full view thus climbs | V |
Pleasure its heights for ever and for ever | R |
The centre fire heaves underneath the earth | W |
And the earth changes like a human face | X |
The molten ore bursts up among the rocks | Y |
Winds into the stone s heart outbranches bright | M |
In hidden mines spots barren river beds | Z |
Crumbles into fine sand where sunbeams bask | A2 |
God joys therein The wroth sea s waves are edged | M |
With foam white as the bitten lip of hate | M |
When in the solitary waste strange groups | B2 |
Of young volcanos come up cyclops like | C2 |
Staring together with their eyes on flame | D2 |
God tastes a pleasure in their uncouth pride | M |
Then all is still earth is a wintry clod | M |
But spring wind like a dancing psaltress passes | E2 |
Over its breast to waken it rare verdure | R |
Buds tenderly upon rough banks between | F2 |
The withered tree roots and the cracks of frost | M |
Like a smile striving with a wrinkled face | X |
The grass grows bright the boughs are swoln with blooms | G2 |
Like chrysalids impatient for the air | R |
The shining dorrs are busy beetles run | H2 |
Along the furrows ants make their ade | M |
Above birds fly in merry flocks the lark | I2 |
Soars up and up shivering for very joy | P |
Afar the ocean sleeps white fishing gulls | J2 |
Flit where the strand is purple with its tribe | K2 |
Of nested limpets savage creatures seek | L2 |
Their loves in wood and plain and God renews | M2 |
His ancient rapture Thus He dwells in all | D |
From life s minute beginnings up at last | M |
To man the consummation of this scheme | N2 |
Of being the completion of this sphere | R |
Of life whose attributes had here and there | R |
Been scattered o er the visible world before | R |
Asking to be combined dim fragments meant | M |
To be united in some wondrous whole | O2 |
Imperfect qualities throughout creation | H2 |
Suggesting some one creature yet to make | P2 |
Some point where all those scattered rays should meet | M |
Convergent in the faculties of man | Q2 |
Robert Browning
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