In War-time: A Prayer Of The Understanding Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGH IJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXSCYJ EZZA2SSB2CZZC2D2ZYE2 F2XZZZG2ZDEH2DZI2ZJ2 K2NZRZCL2M2ZN2O2P2EZ ZQ2ZR2P2ZN2ZN2S2CLo this is night Hast thou oh sun refused | A |
Thy countenance or is thy golden arm | B |
Shortened or from thy shining place in heaven | C |
Art thou put down and lost Neither hast thou | D |
Refused thy constant face nor is thine arm | B |
Shortened nor from thy principality | E |
Art thou deposed oh sun Ours ours the sin | F |
The sorrow From thy steadfast noon we turned | G |
Into the eastern shade and this is night | H |
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Yet so revolves the axle of the world | I |
And by that brief aversion wheels us round | J |
To morn and rolls us on the larger paths | K |
Of annual duty Thou observant moon | L |
That dancest round the seasonable earth | M |
As David round the ark but half thy ring | N |
In process yet complete the circular whole | O |
Promotes thee and expedes thy right advance | P |
And all thy great desire of summer signs | Q |
And thou oh sun our centre who thyself | R |
Art satellite and conscious of the far | S |
Archelion in obedience of free will | T |
And native duty as the good man walks | U |
Among the children's faces with thine house | V |
About thee least and greatest first and last | W |
Makest of the blue eternal holiday | X |
Thy glad perambulation and thou far | S |
Archelion feudatory still of one | C |
Not sovran nor in fee of paramount power | Y |
Moons round your worlds worlds round your suns suns round | J |
Such satraps as in orderly degree | E |
Confess a lordlier regent and pervade | Z |
A vaster cycle ye so moved commoved | Z |
Revolving and convolving turn the heavens | A2 |
Upon the pivot of that summery star | S |
Centre of all we know and thou oh star | S |
Centre of all we know chief crown of crowns | B2 |
Who art the one in all the all in one | C |
And seest the ordered whole nought uninvolved | Z |
But all involved to one direct result | Z |
Of multiform volution in one pomp | C2 |
One power one tune one time upon one path | D2 |
Move with thee moving Thou amid thy host | Z |
Marchest ah whither | Y |
Oh God before Whom | E2 |
We marshal thus Thy legioned works to take | F2 |
The secret of Thy counsel and array | X |
Congress and progress and with multitude | Z |
As conquerors and to conquer in consent | Z |
Of universal law approach Thy bound | Z |
Thine immemorial bound and at Thy face | G2 |
Heaven and earth flee away oh Thou Lord God | Z |
Whether oh absolute existence Thou | D |
The Maker makest and this fair we see | E |
Be but the mote and dust of that unseen | H2 |
Unsought unsearchable or whether Thou | D |
Whose goings forth are from of old around | Z |
Thy going in mere effluence without care | I2 |
Breathest creation out into the cold | Z |
Beyond Thee and within Thine ambient breath | J2 |
So walkest everlasting as we walk | K2 |
The unportioned snows or whether meditating | N |
Eternity self centred self fulfilled | Z |
Self continent Thou thinkest and we live | R |
A little while forgettest and we fade | Z |
Rememberest and we are and this bright vision | C |
Wherein we move nay all our total sum | L2 |
And story be to Thee as to a man | M2 |
When in the drop and rising of a lid | Z |
Lo the swift rack and fashion of a dream | N2 |
No more oh Thou inscrutable whose ways | O2 |
Are not as ours whose form we know not voice | P2 |
Hear not true work behold not mystery | E |
Conceive not who as thunder shakes the world | Z |
And rings a silver bell hast sometime moved | Z |
The tongue of man but in Thy proper speech | Q2 |
Wearest a human language on a word | Z |
As limpets on a rock who as Eternal | R2 |
Omnipotential Infinite Allwise | P2 |
In measure of Thine operation hast | Z |
No prime or term in subject as in scheme | N2 |
No final end in eidol as in act | Z |
Nought but the perfect God oh Thou Supreme | N2 |
Inaudible Invisible Unknown | S2 |
Thy will be done | C |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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