News Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEBCFAFA GHGHIIJJKKLMLM NOHPJJQRSSTUTU VWVWXXYYWWHZA2Z| News from a foreign country came | A |
| As if my treasure and my wealth lay there | B |
| So much it did my heart inflame | A |
| 'Twas wont to call my Soul into mine ear | C |
| Which thither went to meet | D |
| The approaching sweet | D |
| And on the threshold stood | E |
| To entertain the unknown Good | E |
| It hover'd there | B |
| As if 'twould leave mine ear | C |
| And was so eager to embrace | F |
| The joyful tidings as they came | A |
| 'Twould almost leave its dwelling place | F |
| To entertain that same | A |
| - | |
| As if the tidings were the things | G |
| My very joys themselves my foreign treasure | H |
| Or else did bear them on their wings | G |
| With so much joy they came with so much pleasure | H |
| My Soul stood at that gate | I |
| To recreate | I |
| Itself with bliss and to | J |
| Be pleased with speed A fuller view | J |
| It fain would take | K |
| Yet journeys back would make | K |
| Unto my heart as if 'twould fain | L |
| Go out to meet yet stay within | M |
| To fit a place to entertain | L |
| And bring the tidings in | M |
| - | |
| What sacred instinct did inspire | N |
| My soul in childhood with a hope so strong | O |
| What secret force moved my desire | H |
| To expect my joys beyond the seas so young | P |
| Felicity I knew | J |
| Was out of view | J |
| And being here alone | Q |
| I saw that happiness was gone | R |
| From me For this | S |
| I thirsted absent bliss | S |
| And thought that sure beyond the seas | T |
| Or else in something near at hand | U |
| I knew not yet since naught did please | T |
| I knew my Bliss did stand | U |
| - | |
| But little did the infant dream | V |
| That all the treasures of the world were by | W |
| And that himself was so the cream | V |
| And crown of all which round about did lie | W |
| Yet thus it was the Gem | X |
| The Diadem | X |
| The ring enclosing all | Y |
| That stood upon this earthly ball | Y |
| The Heavenly eye | W |
| Much wider than the sky | W |
| Wherein they all included were | H |
| The glorious Soul that was the King | Z |
| Made to possess them did appear | A2 |
| A small and little thing | Z |
Thomas Traherne
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