White Paper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL LLLL MNMN LLLL LLLL OLOL LKLK LLLL| SNOWY SMOOTH beneath the pen | A |
| Richest field that iron ploughs | B |
| Germinating thoughts of men | A |
| Tho no heaven its rain allows | B |
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| There they ripen thousand fold | C |
| And our spirits reap the corn | D |
| In a day long dream of gold | C |
| Food for all the souls unborn | D |
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| Like the murmur of the earth | E |
| When we listen stooping low | F |
| Like sap singing nature s mirth | E |
| Foaming up the trees that grow | F |
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| Evermore a subtle song | G |
| Sings the pen unto it while | H |
| Fluid idea flows along | G |
| Each new Era s mother Nile | H |
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| Greater than ensphering Sea | I |
| For it holds the sea and land | J |
| Seed of every deed to be | I |
| Down its current borne like sand | J |
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| I caress thy surface sheer | K |
| Holding thee the Absolute | L |
| Where the things to be inhere | K |
| Waiting their material bruit | L |
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| How I love thee my heart s blood | L |
| Were too dull to smutch thy white | L |
| I ll aver no lily s bud | L |
| Lays such unction on my sight | L |
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| Suave of maiden s throat or arm | M |
| Bliss embodied to the touch | N |
| Has not such ambrosial charm | M |
| Not a marble Goddess such | N |
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| Dear White Paper All To day | L |
| Palpitates with spirit heat | L |
| Only on thy whiteness may | L |
| Seers translate its rhythms sweet | L |
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| Holy Paper all the Past | L |
| Were a rack of ruined cloud | L |
| Stripping from our orbit vast | L |
| But thou Eternity endowed | L |
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| With an actual soul of speech | O |
| Life of life by death distilled | L |
| That all dateless days shall reach | O |
| As life s vine of veins is filled | L |
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| O the glorious Heavens wrought | L |
| By Cadmean souls of yore | K |
| From pure element of Thought | L |
| And thy leaves their silvern door | K |
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| Light they open and we stand | L |
| Past the sovereignty of Fate | L |
| Glad among Them still and grand | L |
| The Creators and Create | L |
Sydney Wheeler Jephcott
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