Repose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFDH IJKJLL MNOPQQ| A mossy footfall in this wood | A |
| A peal of thunder were | B |
| Or autumn tempest shriek compared | C |
| With the unwhispered stir | B |
| Of massy fluids lift in air | D |
| To build these leafy pillars fair | D |
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| Lavished at wordless wish or mute | E |
| Command the chemic wealth | F |
| Upsprings to meet the builders' hands | G |
| All hushed as dusky stealth | F |
| Noiseless as love as silent prayer | D |
| Mysterious the builders are | H |
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| Ah sure these silences are works | I |
| Of God's sabbatic rest | J |
| A music perfect as the calm | K |
| Of wave's unbroken crest | J |
| These woven leaves that stilly nod | L |
| These violets ope their eyes on God | L |
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| The deep serene that worketh here | M |
| Works too 'mid human tears | N |
| A thousand years as one day is | O |
| One day a thousand years | P |
| Fell death still thunders at his task | Q |
| But death the peace of God doth mask | Q |
Theodore Harding Rand
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