The Ecstasy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCCDD EFGDDDHHI JJKLGGMNOPCCQQRRSTPP PUU PCCUU CCPPUU PPCCUU PPJVUU CCCCWWPPRRR| The fleeting Joy that all things have beneath | A |
| Goes off like snow while Zephirs warmly breath | B |
| The happy wish that makes our bliss compleat | C |
| it is not wealth it is not to be great | C |
| To glide along on pleasures easy floud | C |
| Or in fames wreaths to shine above the croud | C |
| Weak man who charms in these alone can see | D |
| Hear what I ask learn to ask of me | D |
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| Send to my breast Allmighty King send down | E |
| A beam of brightness from thy starry throne | F |
| Break on my mind drive errors cloud away | G |
| make a calm in passions troubled sea | D |
| that the poor banishd Soul serene free | D |
| May rise from earth to visit heav'n thee | D |
| Come peace Divine shed gently from above | H |
| Inspire my willing bosome wondrous love | H |
| lend thy wings teach me how to move | I |
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| But Whither whither now what wondrous fire | J |
| With this blest influence equalls my desire | J |
| I rise or love the kind deluder reigns | K |
| acts in fancy such inchanted scenes | L |
| The earth retires the parting skyes give way | G |
| now I view the native realms of day | G |
| I mount above the starrs above the sun | M |
| still methinks the spirit bears me on | N |
| O strange enjoyment of a bliss unseen | O |
| O ravishment o sacred rage within | P |
| Tumultuous pleasure raisd on peace of mind | C |
| Which he thats good onely he can find | C |
| I hear it must be so Ime sure I hear | Q |
| Seraphick musick strike my rapturd ear | Q |
| I see the light that veiles the throne on high | R |
| A light too glorious for the dazzled eye | R |
| look how around this great mysterious place | S |
| The Angells fly as they fly they praise | T |
| Look how Apostles prophets martyrs Joyn | P |
| all their tongues all their harps combine | P |
| to celebrate the Majesty divine | P |
| to please heav'ns King their heav'nly lays are sung | U |
| No voice is silent not a harp unstrung | U |
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| Pure immortall quire allow me now | P |
| Since faign my heart woud pay its tribute too | C |
| Allow my Zeal to bear a part wth you | C |
| Assist my words and as they move along | U |
| With Halelujah's crown the burthend song | U |
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| Father Eternall God of truth light | C |
| Great above all beyond expression bright | C |
| No bounds thy knowledge none thy powr confine | P |
| For powr knowledge in their source are thine | P |
| Around thee Glory spreads her golden wing | U |
| Sing Glittering Angells Halelujah sing | U |
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| Son of the Father blest begotten Son | P |
| Ere the short measuring line of time begun | P |
| In thee his perfect Essence makes abode | C |
| the world has seen thy workes owns thee God | C |
| The world must own thee loves unfathomd spring | U |
| Sing Glittering Angells Halelujah Sing | U |
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| Proceeding Spirit Equally divine | P |
| In whom the Godheads true perfections shine | P |
| You fill our bosomes with celestiall fire | J |
| tis a bliss to burn when you inspire | V |
| O Lord Of Grace for Grace on earth you bring | U |
| sing glittering Angells Halelujah sing | U |
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| But Ah whats this where is all my heat | C |
| What interruption makes my Joy retreat | C |
| the worlds gott in my meditation crost | C |
| the gay pictures in my fancy lost | C |
| How willingly Alas our soules woud rise | W |
| be fixd starrs inserted in the skyes | W |
| But our attempts these chains of earth restrain | P |
| Deride our toiles dragg us down again | P |
| Thus meteors mounting with the planets vie | R |
| But their own bodys sink them in the Sky | R |
| When the warmths gon that taught ym how to fly | R |
Thomas Parnell
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