Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GHIEJ KLKLK MNMNM OPOPQ ERERE STSTS UVUVU HEHEH WXYXY ZUZUZ UPUEU A2B2A2B2A2 UUUUU UC2UC2U D2UD2UU UE2UE2U PUPUP UMUMU UMUMU F2MF2MF2 AG2AG2A H2I2J2I2J2 EUEUE K2UK2UK2 MEMEM UMUMU UL2UMU UM2UM2U UUUUU MUMUU FHFHF N2L2N2L2N2 O2UP2UP2 UMUMU UAUAU UQ2UQ2U LELES R2MR2MR2 MUMUM MS2MS2M AP2AP2AI know there shall dawn a day | A |
Is it here on homely earth | B |
Is it yonder worlds away | A |
Where the strange and new have birth | B |
That Power comes full in play | A |
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Is it here with grass about | C |
Under befriending trees | D |
When shy buds venture out | C |
And the air by mild degrees | D |
Puts winter's death past doubt | C |
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Is it up amid whirl and roar | E |
Of the elemental flame | F |
Which star flecks heaven's dark floor | E |
That new yet still the same | F |
Full in play comes Power once more | E |
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Somewhere below above | G |
Shall a day dawn this I know | H |
When Power which vainly strove | I |
My weakness to o'erthrow | E |
Shall triumph I breathe I move | J |
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I truly am at last | K |
For a veil is rent between | L |
Me and the truth which passed | K |
Fitful half guessed half seen | L |
Grasped at not gained held fast | K |
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I for my race and me | M |
Shall apprehend life's law | N |
In the legend of man shall see | M |
Writ large what small I saw | N |
In my life's tale both agree | M |
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As the record from youth to age | O |
Of my own the single soul | P |
So the world's wide book one page | O |
Deciphered explains the whole | P |
Of our common heritage | Q |
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How but from near to far | E |
Should knowledge proceed increase | R |
Try the clod ere test the star | E |
Bring our inside strife to peace | R |
Ere we wage on the outside war | E |
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So my annals thus begin | S |
With body to life awoke | T |
Soul the immortal twin | S |
Of body which bore soul's yoke | T |
Since mortal and not akin | S |
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By means of the flesh grown fit | U |
Mind in surview of things | V |
Now soared anon alit | U |
To treasure its gatherings | V |
From the ranged expanse to wit | U |
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Nature earth's heaven's wide show | H |
Which taught all hope all fear | E |
Acquainted with joy and woe | H |
I could say Thus much is clear | E |
Doubt annulled thus much I know | H |
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All is effect of cause | W |
As it would has willed and done | X |
Power and my mind's applause | Y |
Goes passing laws each one | X |
To Omnipotence lord of laws | Y |
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Head praises but heart refrains | Z |
From loving's acknowledgment | U |
Whole losses outweigh half gains | Z |
Earth's good is with evil blent | U |
Good struggles but evil reigns | Z |
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Yet since Earth's good proved good | U |
Incontrovertibly | P |
Worth loving I understood | U |
How evil did mind descry | E |
Power's object to end pursued | U |
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Were haply as cloud across | A2 |
Good's orb no orb itself | B2 |
Mere mind were it found at loss | A2 |
Did it play the tricksy elf | B2 |
And from life's gold purge the dross | A2 |
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Power is known infinite | U |
Good struggles to be at best | U |
Seems scanned by the human sight | U |
Tried by the senses' test | U |
Good palpably but with right | U |
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Therefore to mind's award | U |
Of loving as power claims praise | C2 |
Power which finds naught too hard | U |
Fulfilling itself all ways | C2 |
Unchecked unchanged while barred | U |
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Baffled what good began | D2 |
Ends evil on every side | U |
To Power submissive man | D2 |
Breathes E'en as Thou art abide | U |
While to good Late found long sought | U |
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Would Power to a plenitude | U |
But liberate but enlarge | E2 |
Good's strait confine renewed | U |
Were ever the heart's discharge | E2 |
Of loving Else doubts intrude | U |
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For you dominate stars all | P |
For a sense informs you brute | U |
Bird worm fly great and small | P |
Each with your attribute | U |
Or low or majestical | P |
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Thou earth that embosomest | U |
Offspring of land and sea | M |
How thy hills first sank to rest | U |
How thy vales bred herb and tree | M |
Which dizen thy mother breast | U |
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Do I ask Be ignorant | U |
Ever the answer clangs | M |
Whereas if I plead world's want | U |
Soul's sorrows and body's pangs | M |
Play the human applicant | U |
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Is a remedy far to seek | F2 |
I question and find response | M |
I all men strong or weak | F2 |
Conceive and declare at once | M |
For each want its cure Power speak | F2 |
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Stop change avert decay | A |
Fix life fast banish death | G2 |
Eclipse from the star bid stay | A |
Abridge of no moment's breath | G2 |
One creature Hence Night hail Day | A |
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What need to confess again | H2 |
No problem this to solve | I2 |
By impotence Power once plain | J2 |
Proved Power let on Power devolve | I2 |
Good's right to co equal reign | J2 |
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Past mind's conception Power | E |
Do I seek how star earth beast | U |
Bird worm fly gain their dower | E |
For life's use most and least | U |
Back from the search I cower | E |
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Do I seek what heals all harm | K2 |
Nay hinders the harm at first | U |
Saves earth Speak Power the charm | K2 |
Keep the life there unamerced | U |
By chance change death's alarm | K2 |
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As promptly as mind conceives | M |
Let Power in its turn declare | E |
Some law which wrong retrieves | M |
Abolishes everywhere | E |
What thwarts what irks what grieves | M |
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Never to be and yet | U |
How easy it seems to sense | M |
Like man's if somehow met | U |
Power with its match immense | M |
Love limitless unbeset | U |
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By hindrance on every side | U |
Conjectured nowise known | L2 |
Such may be could man confide | U |
Such would match were Love but shows | M |
Stript of the veils that hide | U |
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Power's self now manifest | U |
So reads my record thine | M2 |
O world how runs it Guessed | U |
Were the purport of that prime line | M2 |
Prophetic of all the rest | U |
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In a beginning God | U |
Made heaven and earth Forth flashed | U |
Knowledge from star to clod | U |
Man knew things doubt abashed | U |
Closed its long period | U |
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Knowledge obtained Power praise | M |
Had Good been manifest | U |
Broke out in cloudless blaze | M |
Unchequered as unrepressed | U |
In all things Good at best | U |
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Then praise all praise no blame | F |
Had hailed the perfection No | H |
As Power's display the same | F |
Be Good's praise forth shall flow | H |
Unisonous in acclaim | F |
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Even as the world its life | N2 |
So have I lived my own | L2 |
Power seen with Love at strife | N2 |
That sure this dimly shown | L2 |
Good rare and evil rife | N2 |
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Whereof the effect be faith | O2 |
That some far day were found | U |
Ripeness in things now rathe | P2 |
Wrong righted each chain unbound | U |
Renewal born out of scathe | P2 |
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Why faith but to lift the load | U |
To leaven the lump where lies | M |
Mind prostrate through knowledge owed | U |
To the loveless Power it tries | M |
To withstand how vain In flowed | U |
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Ever resistless fact | U |
No more than the passive clay | A |
Disputes the potter's act | U |
Could the whelmed mind disobey | A |
Knowledge the cataract | U |
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But perfect in every part | U |
Has the potter's moulded shape | Q2 |
Leap of man's quickened heart | U |
Throe of his thought's escape | Q2 |
Stings of his soul which dart | U |
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Through the barrier of flesh till keen | L |
She climbs from the calm and clear | E |
Through turbidity all between | L |
From the known to the unknown here | E |
Heaven's Shall be from Earth's Has been | S |
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Then life is to wake not sleep | R2 |
Rise and not rest but press | M |
From earth's level where blindly creep | R2 |
Things perfected more or less | M |
To the heaven's height far and steep | R2 |
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Where amid what strifes and storms | M |
May wait the adventurous quest | U |
Power is Love transports transforms | M |
Who aspired from worst to best | U |
Sought the soul's world spurned the worms' | M |
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I have faith such end shall be | M |
From the first Power was I knew | S2 |
Life has made clear to me | M |
That strive but for closer view | S2 |
Love were as plain to see | M |
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When see When there dawns a day | A |
If not on the homely earth | P2 |
Then yonder worlds away | A |
Where the strange and new have birth | P2 |
And Power comes full in play | A |
Robert Browning
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