Johannes Agricola In Meditation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDEDDFGFGGHIJKI LMLMMNLNLLOPOQQRDRDD JSJSSLTLTTAIAIISUSUUThere'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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