To The Rainbow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIJ KAKA LMNM OOOO PQPQ ARCR STST OUOU VRVR WXWXTriumphal 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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