To The Rainbow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIJ KAKA LMNM OOOO PQPQ ARCR STST OUOU VRVR WXWX| Triumphal arch that fill'st the sky | A |
| When storms prepare to part | B |
| I ask not proud Philosophy | C |
| To teach me what thou art | B |
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| Still seem as to my childhood's sight | D |
| A midway station given | E |
| For happy spirits to alight | D |
| Betwixt the earth and heaven | E |
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| Can all that Optics teach unfold | F |
| Thy form to please me so | G |
| As when I dreamt of gems and gold | F |
| Hid in thy radiant bow | H |
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| When Science from Creation's face | I |
| Enchantment's veil withdraws | J |
| What lovely visions yield their place | I |
| To cold material laws | J |
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| And yet fair bow no fabling dreams | K |
| But words of the Most High | A |
| Have told why first thy robe of beams | K |
| Was woven in the sky | A |
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| When o'er the green undeluged earth | L |
| Heaven's covenant thou didst shine | M |
| How came the world's gray fathers forth | N |
| To watch thy sacred sign | M |
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| And when its yellow luster smiled | O |
| O'er mountains yet untrod | O |
| Each mother held aloft her child | O |
| To bless the bow of God | O |
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| Methinks thy jubilee to keep | P |
| The first made anthem rang | Q |
| On earth delivered from the deep | P |
| And the first poet sang | Q |
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| Nor ever shall the Muse's eye | A |
| Unraptured greet thy beam | R |
| Theme of primeval prophecy | C |
| Be still the prophet's theme | R |
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| The earth to thee her incense yields | S |
| The lark thy welcome sings | T |
| When glittering in the freshened fields | S |
| The snowy mushroom springs | T |
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| How glorious is thy girdle cast | O |
| O'er mountain tower and town | U |
| Or mirrored in the ocean vast | O |
| A thousand fathoms down | U |
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| As fresh in yon horizon dark | V |
| As young thy beauties seem | R |
| As when the eagle from the ark | V |
| First sported in thy beam | R |
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| For faithful to its sacred page | W |
| Heaven still rebuilds thy span | X |
| Nor lets the type grow pale with age | W |
| That first spoke peace to man | X |
Thomas Campbell
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