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