Johannes Agricola In Meditation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDEDDFGFGGHIJKI LMLMMNLNLLOPOQQRDRDD JSJSSLTLTTAIAIISUSUU| There's heaven above and night by night | A |
| I look right through its gorgeous roof | B |
| No suns and moons though e'er so bright | A |
| Avail to stop me splendor proof | B |
| I keep the broods of stars aloof | B |
| For I intend to get to God | C |
| For 't is to God I speed so fast | D |
| For in God's breast my own abode | E |
| Those shoals of dazzling glory passed | D |
| I lay my spirit down at last | D |
| I lie where I have always lain | F |
| God smiles as he has always smiled | G |
| Ere suns and moons could wax and wane | F |
| Ere stars were thundergirt or piled | G |
| The heavens God thought on me his child | G |
| Ordained a life for me arrayed | H |
| Its circumstances every one | I |
| To the minutest ay God said | J |
| This head this hand should rest upon | K |
| Thus ere he fashioned star or sun | I |
| And having thus created me | L |
| Thus rooted me he bade me grow | M |
| Guiltless forever like a tree | L |
| That buds and blooms nor seeks to know | M |
| The law by which it prospers so | M |
| But sure that thought and word and deed | N |
| All go to swell his love for me | L |
| Me made because that love had need | N |
| Of something irreversibly | L |
| Pledged solely its content to be | L |
| Yes yes a tree which must ascend | O |
| No poison gourd foredoomed to stoop | P |
| I have God's warrant could I blend | O |
| All hideous sins as in a cup | Q |
| To drink the mingled venoms up | Q |
| Secure my nature will convert | R |
| The draught to blossoming gladness fast | D |
| While sweet dews turn to the gourd's hurt | R |
| And bloat and while they bloat it blast | D |
| As from the first its lot was cast | D |
| For as I lie smiled on full fed | J |
| By unexhausted power to bless | S |
| I gaze below on hell's fierce bed | J |
| And those its waves of flame oppress | S |
| Swarming in ghastly wretchedness | S |
| Whose life on earth aspired to be | L |
| One altar smoke so pure to win | T |
| If not love like God's love for me | L |
| At least to keep his anger in | T |
| And all their striving turned to sin | T |
| Priest doctor hermit monk grown white | A |
| With prayer the broken hearted nun | I |
| The martyr the wan acolyte | A |
| The incense swinging child undone | I |
| Before God fashioned star or sun | I |
| God whom I praise how could I praise | S |
| If such as I might understand | U |
| Make out and reckon on his ways | S |
| And bargain for his love and stand | U |
| Paying a price at his right hand | U |
Robert Browning
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