To The Holy Spirit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEDEC FGFGHIHIJKKJ LMLMNONOPQPQ RSRSTUTUVNWXXY| Immeasurable haze | A |
| The desert valley spreads | B |
| Up golden river beds | B |
| As if in other days | A |
| Trees rise and thin away | C |
| And past the trees the hills | D |
| Pure line and shade of dust | E |
| Bear witness to our wills | D |
| We see them for we must | E |
| Calm in deceit they stay | C |
| - | |
| High noon returns the mind | F |
| Upon its local fact | G |
| Dry grass and sand we find | F |
| No vision to distract | G |
| Low in the summer heat | H |
| Naming old graves are stones | I |
| Pushed here and there the seat | H |
| Of nothing and the bones | I |
| Beneath are similar | J |
| Relics of lonely men | K |
| Brutal and aimless then | K |
| As now irregular | J |
| - | |
| These are thy fallen sons | L |
| Thou whom I try to reach | M |
| Thou whom the quick eye shuns | L |
| Thou dost elude my speech | M |
| But when I go from sense | N |
| And trace thee down in thought | O |
| I meet thee then intense | N |
| And know thee as I ought | O |
| But thou art mind alone | P |
| And I alas am bound | Q |
| Pure mind to flesh and bone | P |
| And flesh and bone to ground | Q |
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| These had no thought at most | R |
| Dark faith and blinding earth | S |
| Where is the trammeled ghost | R |
| Was there another birth | S |
| Only one certainty | T |
| Beside thine unfleshed eye | U |
| Beside the spectral tree | T |
| Can I discern these die | U |
| All of this stir of age | V |
| Though it elude my sense | N |
| Into what heritage | W |
| I know not seems to fall | X |
| Quiet beyond recall | X |
| Into irrelevance | Y |
Yvor Winters
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