The Delectable Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADDA EFGAHHE AIIAAAA JAAJAAJ AKKALLA MAAMNNN NOPNNNN MQQMFGM| How light and pleasant is the way | A |
| Across this quiet valley whose soft mead | B |
| Springs lightly as the air that angels tread | C |
| Beneath our footsteps weariless all day | A |
| This crystal river flowing by our side | D |
| One stream of sunshine still has seem'd a guide | D |
| From Heaven in pure angelical array | A |
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| These purple mountains now are nigh | E |
| That all the valley through have fill'd our eyes | F |
| With day dreams of the distant Paradise | G |
| Their sun surrounded summits can descry | A |
| We mount them now upon Hope's bounding wing | H |
| That makes each short swift footstep long to spring | H |
| Suddenly upward to the shadeless sky | E |
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| The air methinks is lighter here | A |
| And the breast heaves with full untrammell'd ease | I |
| Drinking the life draught of the fragrant breeze | I |
| That wafts its soul sighs to another sphere | A |
| Earth groweth little in our eyes but fair | A |
| Fair as though sin had never enter'd there | A |
| Earth groweth little as Heaven draweth near | A |
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| This rock and then at last we stand | J |
| Upon the silent summit scarce I dare | A |
| Gaze outward through the clear and azure air | A |
| Towards the radiance of the Promised Land | J |
| I am so weak and fallen friend I fear | A |
| Mine eyes will dazzle and the light appear | A |
| Darkness so that I shall not see the Promised Land | J |
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| Look thou afar and tell me true | A |
| What thou discernest Oh my eyes grow dim | K |
| And floods of golden glories seem to swim | K |
| Wave upon wave through all the cloudless blue | A |
| Blinding me with their sunny splendors quite | L |
| So that amid the pure excess of light | L |
| But vaguest visions faintly glimmer through | A |
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| Yet now methinks I seem to see | M |
| One spot of burning brightness beaming clear | A |
| Through all the floating glory like a sphere | A |
| Quenching light with its own intensity | M |
| Yes yes it is the Holy City I behold | N |
| With God's sun from its towers of burnish'd gold | N |
| Reflected broadly through immensity | N |
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| I must gaze out although I die | N |
| Ah yes I see it through my longing tears | O |
| A great clear glow of glory there appears | P |
| Like a light fountain in the eastern sky | N |
| That as I gaze pours forth its living light | N |
| Flooding Creation till the dazzled sight | N |
| Sees Heaven in all things that around it lie | N |
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| So shall it ever henceforth be | M |
| Who that discerneth once God's dwelling place | Q |
| Can blot from vision the refulgent trace | Q |
| Ay henceforth all things shall be Heaven to me | M |
| And as I journey on shall brightly rise | F |
| Divinest semblances of Paradise | G |
| Heaven mine in Time and in Eternity | M |
Walter R. Cassels
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