Life Of The Blessed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDD EFEFF GHGHH BIBIJ KLKLL MNONN PQPQQ HGHGG| FROM THE SPANISH OF LUIS PONCE DE LEON | A |
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| Region of life and light | B |
| Land of the good whose earthly toils are o'er | C |
| Nor frost nor heat may blight | B |
| Thy vernal beauty fertile shore | D |
| Yielding thy blessed fruits for evermore | D |
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| There without crook or sling | E |
| Walks the good shepherd blossoms white and red | F |
| Round his meek temples cling | E |
| And to sweet pastures led | F |
| His own loved flock beneath his eye is fed | F |
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| He guides and near him they | G |
| Follow delighted for he makes them go | H |
| Where dwells eternal May | G |
| And heavenly roses blow | H |
| Deathless and gathered but again to grow | H |
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| He leads them to the height | B |
| Named of the infinite and long sought Good | I |
| And fountains of delight | B |
| And where his feet have stood | I |
| Springs up along the way their tender food | J |
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| And when in the mid skies | K |
| The climbing sun has reached his highest bound | L |
| Reposing as he lies | K |
| With all his flock around | L |
| He witches the still air with numerous sound | L |
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| From his sweet lute flow forth | M |
| Immortal harmonies of power to still | N |
| All passions born of earth | O |
| And draw the ardent will | N |
| Its destiny of goodness to fulfil | N |
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| Might but a little part | P |
| A wandering breath of that high melody | Q |
| Descend into my heart | P |
| And change it till it be | Q |
| Transformed and swallowed up oh love in thee | Q |
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| Ah then my soul should know | H |
| Beloved where thou liest at noon of day | G |
| And from this place of woe | H |
| Released should take its way | G |
| To mingle with thy flock and never stray | G |
William Cullen Bryant
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