Opifex Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCCB DEED FGGF HIIH JBBJ| As I was carving images from clouds | A |
| And tinting them with soft ethereal dyes | B |
| Pressed from the pulp of dreams one comes and cries | B |
| Forbear and all my heaven with gloom enshrouds | B |
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| Forbear Thou hast no tools wherewith to essay | B |
| The delicate waves of that elusive grain | C |
| Wouldst have due recompense of vulgar pain | C |
| The potter's wheel for thee and some coarse clay | B |
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| So work if work thou must O humbly skilled | D |
| Thou hast not known the Master in thy soul | E |
| His spirit moves not with a sweet control | E |
| Thou art outside and art not of the guild | D |
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| Thereat I rose and from his presence passed | F |
| But going murmured To the God above | G |
| Who holds my heart and knows its store of love | G |
| I turn from thee thou proud iconoclast | F |
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| Then on the shore God stooped to me and said | H |
| He spake the truth even so the springs are set | I |
| That move thy life nor will they suffer let | I |
| Nor change their scope else living thou wert dead | H |
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| This is thy life indulge its natural flow | J |
| And carve these forms They yet may find a place | B |
| On shelves for them reserved In any case | B |
| I bid thee carve them knowing what I know | J |
Thomas Edward Brown
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