My Springs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EECC FFEE EEEC GGEE HHEE EEEE IIEE JJKK EEEE LLEE MMNN OOPP Q| In the heart of the Hills of Life I know | A |
| Two springs that with unbroken flow | A |
| Forever pour their lucent streams | B |
| Into my soul's far Lake of Dreams | B |
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| Not larger than two eyes they lie | C |
| Beneath the many changing sky | C |
| And mirror all of life and time | D |
| Serene and dainty pantomime | D |
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| Shot through with lights of stars and dawns | E |
| And shadowed sweet by ferns and fawns | E |
| Thus heaven and earth together vie | C |
| Their shining depths to sanctify | C |
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| Always when the large Form of Love | F |
| Is hid by storms that rage above | F |
| I gaze in my two springs and see | E |
| Love in his very verity | E |
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| Always when Faith with stifling stress | E |
| Of grief hath died in bitterness | E |
| I gaze in my two springs and see | E |
| A Faith that smiles immortally | C |
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| Always when Charity and Hope | G |
| In darkness bounden feebly grope | G |
| I gaze in my two springs and see | E |
| A Light that sets my captives free | E |
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| Always when Art on perverse wing | H |
| Flies where I cannot hear him sing | H |
| I gaze in my two springs and see | E |
| A charm that brings him back to me | E |
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| When Labor faints and Glory fails | E |
| And coy Reward in sighs exhales | E |
| I gaze in my two springs and see | E |
| Attainment full and heavenly | E |
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| O Love O Wife thine eyes are they | I |
| My springs from out whose shining gray | I |
| Issue the sweet celestial streams | E |
| That feed my life's bright Lake of Dreams | E |
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| Oval and large and passion pure | J |
| And gray and wise and honor sure | J |
| Soft as a dying violet breath | K |
| Yet calmly unafraid of death | K |
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| Thronged like two dove cotes of gray doves | E |
| With wife's and mother's and poor folk's loves | E |
| And home loves and high glory loves | E |
| And science loves and story loves | E |
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| And loves for all that God and man | L |
| In art and nature make or plan | L |
| And lady loves for spidery lace | E |
| And broideries and supple grace | E |
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| And diamonds and the whole sweet round | M |
| Of littles that large life compound | M |
| And loves for God and God's bare truth | N |
| And loves for Magdalen and Ruth | N |
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| Dear eyes dear eyes and rare complete | O |
| Being heavenly sweet and earthly sweet | O |
| I marvel that God made you mine | P |
| For when He frowns 'tis then ye shine | P |
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| Baltimore | Q |
Sidney Lanier
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