The Immortal Part Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKK LLMM NNOO PPQQ CCBB RRSS BBTT| When I meet the morning beam | A |
| Or lay me down at night to dream | A |
| I hear my bones within me say | B |
| Another night another day | B |
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| When shall this slough of sense be cast | C |
| This dust of thoughts be laid at last | C |
| The man of flesh and soul be slain | D |
| And the man of bone remain | D |
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| This tongue that talks these lungs that shout | E |
| These thews that hustle us about | E |
| This brain that fills the skull with schemes | F |
| And its humming hive of dreams | F |
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| These to day are proud in power | G |
| And lord it in their little hour | G |
| The immortal bones obey control | H |
| Of dying flesh and dying soul | H |
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| 'Tis long till eve and morn are gone | I |
| Slow the endless night comes on | J |
| And late to fulness grows the birth | K |
| That shall last as long as earth | K |
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| Wanderers eastward wanderers west | L |
| Know you why you cannot rest | L |
| 'Tis that every mother's son | M |
| Travails with a skeleton | M |
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| Lie down in the bed of dust | N |
| Bear the fruit that bear you must | N |
| Bring the eternal seed to light | O |
| And morn is all the same as night | O |
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| Rest you so from trouble sore | P |
| Fear the heat o' the sun no more | P |
| Nor the snowing winter wild | Q |
| Now you labour not with child | Q |
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| Empty vessel garment cast | C |
| We that wore you long shall last | C |
| Another night another day | B |
| So my bones within me say | B |
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| Therefore they shall do my will | R |
| To day while I am master still | R |
| And flesh and soul now both are strong | S |
| Shall hale the sullen slaves along | S |
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| Before this fire of sense decay | B |
| This smoke of thought blow clean away | B |
| And leave with ancient night alone | T |
| The stedfast and enduring bone | T |
A. E. Housman
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