At Her Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF BGBBG HIHHI BJBBJ BKBBK LMLLM NONNP QRQQR| Lo here among the rest you sleep | A |
| As though no difference were | B |
| 'Twixt them and you more wide more deep | A |
| Than such as fondness loves to keep | A |
| Round each lone sepulchre | B |
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| Yet they but human you divine | C |
| Warmed by that heavenly breath | D |
| Which when ephemeral lights decline | C |
| Like lamp before nocturnal shrine | C |
| Still burneth after death | D |
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| Yes here in Tuscan soil you lie | E |
| With Tuscan turf above | F |
| And lifting silent spires on high | E |
| The cypresses remind the sky | E |
| Of the city of your love | F |
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| And you did grow so like to her | B |
| Wherein you dwelt so long | G |
| Your thoughts like her May roses were | B |
| Untrained unchecked but how astir | B |
| And oh how sweet with song | G |
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| The Poet of Olympian mien | H |
| His frenzy doth control | I |
| And gazing on the dread Unseen | H |
| Keep mind majestic will serene | H |
| And adamantine soul | I |
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| He save to Wisdom sternly true | B |
| Is but the sport of Fate | J |
| And gladiatorial pain But you | B |
| A poet and a woman too | B |
| The burden was too great | J |
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| And so you laid it down and here | B |
| Oblivious of life's load | K |
| Quiet you sleep through all the year | B |
| Young Spring staid Summer Autumn sere | B |
| And Winter's icy goad | K |
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| The swallows freshly on the wing | L |
| In April's sun rejoice | M |
| The nightingales unceasing sing | L |
| Yes Spring brings back the birds of Spring | L |
| But not alas your voice | M |
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| So round your sleep I soft let fall | N |
| Frail emblems of regret | O |
| The lowly wind flower tulip tall | N |
| The iris mantling wayside wall | N |
| And weeping violet | P |
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| My votive flowers to day will blow | Q |
| To morrow be decayed | R |
| But though long sunk from sight I know | Q |
| The glory of your afterglow | Q |
| Will never wholly fade | R |
Alfred Austin
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