From 'pauline' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKJLMNJOPJQ RSTUVJPWUXYJJJZA2WB2 JJWRC2D2| O God where does this tend these struggling aims | A |
| What would I have What is this sleep which seems | B |
| To bound all can there be a waking point | C |
| Of crowning life The soul would never rule | D |
| It would be first in all things it would have | E |
| Its utmost pleasure filled but that complete | F |
| Commanding for commanding sickens it | G |
| The last point I can trace is rest beneath | H |
| Some better essence than itself in weakness | I |
| This is myself not what I think should be | J |
| And what is that I hunger for but God | K |
| My God my God let me for once look on thee | J |
| As tho nought else existed we alone | L |
| And as creation crumbles my soul s spark | M |
| Expands till I can say Even from myself | N |
| I need thee and I feel thee and I love thee | J |
| I do not plead my rapture in thy works | O |
| For love of thee or that I feel as one | P |
| Who cannot die but there is that in me | J |
| Which turns to thee which loves or which should love | Q |
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| Why have I girt myself with this hell dress | R |
| Why have I laboured to put out my life | S |
| Is it not in my nature to adore | T |
| And e en for all my reason do I not | U |
| Feel him and thank him and pray to him now | V |
| Can I forgo the trust that he loves me | J |
| Do I not feel a love which only ONE | P |
| O thou pale form so dimly seen deep eyed | W |
| I have denied thee calmly do I not | U |
| Pant when I read of thy consummate deeds | X |
| And burn to see thy calm pure truths out flash | Y |
| The brightest gleams of earth s philosophy | J |
| Do I not shake to hear aught question thee | J |
| If I am erring save me madden me | J |
| Take from me powers and pleasures let me die | Z |
| Ages so I see thee I am knit round | A2 |
| As with a charm by sin and lust and pride | W |
| Yet tho my wandering dreams have seen all shapes | B2 |
| Of strange delight oft have I stood by thee | J |
| Have I been keeping lonely watch with thee | J |
| In the damp night by weeping Olivet | W |
| Or leaning on thy bosom proudly less | R |
| Or dying with thee on the lonely cross | C2 |
| Or witnessing thy bursting from the tomb | D2 |
Robert Browning
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