Things Mysterious Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLM NOPO QRQR STST THTH GGGG| This earth's a mystery profound | A |
| Its movements make and changes all | B |
| A mystery which none can sound | A |
| Who dwell upon the whirling ball | B |
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| And deeper far than all the rest | C |
| Is man a mystery unsolved | D |
| Since the first heave of ocean's breast | C |
| Since the first course our earth revolv'd | D |
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| His thoughts and e'en his actions too | E |
| Possess a subtle meaning when | F |
| That meaning others may construe | E |
| As plain and open to their ken | F |
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| There is a place in every heart | G |
| As secret as the silent tomb | H |
| Where others have no lot nor part | G |
| Where none may gaze where none may room | H |
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| It seemeth strange that flesh and blood | I |
| Should hold such ghostly hellish things | J |
| And also things supremely good | K |
| Which might not shame an angel's wings | J |
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| Yet so it is for ev'ry throb | L |
| That man's pulsating bosom gives | M |
| And ev'ry smile and ev'ry sob | L |
| Speaks of a mystery that lives | M |
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| There is a tale in ev'ry flow'r | N |
| Which none may whisper none may tell | O |
| A secret thing in ev'ry bower | P |
| Which ev'ry tenant hideth well | O |
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| There is a tale of joy and woe | Q |
| Round ev'ry hearth in ev'ry land | R |
| Which ne'er may ever further go | Q |
| Than round that humble home like band | R |
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| And shall we seek to draw the screen | S |
| Which hides the good and eke the ill | T |
| No it is better far I ween | S |
| To let them keep in hiding still | T |
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| For unknown good is virtue still | T |
| And virtue shows a richer bloom | H |
| As violet or daffodil | T |
| When growing 'mid the grass or broom | H |
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| And he who hides within his heart | G |
| A secret sin all unconfess'd | G |
| To God or man no glossing art | G |
| Can quiet the distracting guest | G |
Thomas Frederick Young
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