At Shelley-s Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGGG DHDHIIJJ KCKCLLDD CMCMNNCC HOHOPPFF FQFQCCDD GDGDRRQS JTJTRRUU VWVWQXCC CRCRFFCC YCYCCCZA2Beneath this marble mute of praise | A |
Is hushed the heart of One | B |
Who whilst it beat had eagle's gaze | A |
To stare upon the sun | B |
Equal in flight | C |
To any height | C |
He lies where they that crawl but come | D |
Sleeping most sound Cor Cordium | D |
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No rippling notes announcing spring | E |
No bloom evoking breeze | F |
No fleecy clouds that earnest bring | E |
Of summer on the seas | F |
Avail to wake | G |
The heart whose ache | G |
Was to be tender overmuch | G |
To Nature's every tone and touch | G |
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The insolence of stranger drum | D |
Vexing the broad blue air | H |
To smite a nation's clamour dumb | D |
Or spur a rash despair | H |
Which once had wrung | I |
That prophet tongue | I |
To challenge force or cheer the slave | J |
Rolls unrebuked around his grave | J |
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The cruel clarion's senseless bray | K |
The lamb's half human bleat | C |
Patter of shower on sward or spray | K |
Or clang of mail d feet | C |
Are weak alike | L |
To stir or strike | L |
The once swift voice that now is dumb | D |
To war's reveil cicala's hum | D |
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Oh wake dead heart come back indeed | C |
Come back Thy thunderous brow | M |
And levin shafts the world did need | C |
Never so much as now | M |
The chain the rack | N |
The hopes kept back | N |
By those whom serfs are forced to trust | C |
Might well reanimate thy dust | C |
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Nay Poet rest thou quiet there | H |
'Neath sunshine wind and rain | O |
At least if thou canst scarce repair | H |
Thou dost not share our pain | O |
It is enough | P |
That cold rebuff | P |
And calumny of knave and dunce | F |
Did vex thy tender spirit once | F |
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Where was the marvel though thy corse | F |
Submitted to the pyre | Q |
Thy heart of hearts should foil the force | F |
Of the sea wind blown fire | Q |
It was but just | C |
That what was dust | C |
Should own the cradle whence it came | D |
But when did flame e'er feed on flame | D |
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Or rather say the sacred torch | G |
The while it did illume | D |
Thy heart did also so far scorch | G |
Was nought left to consume | D |
That ardent zeal | R |
For human weal | R |
Had searched and parched it o'er and o'er | Q |
Till lava like 'twould burn no more | S |
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I snatch the banner from thy grave | J |
I wave the torch on high | T |
'Spite smiling tyrant crouching slave | J |
The Cause shall never die | T |
Sceptre and cowl | R |
May smite or scowl | R |
Serfs hug the chains they half deserve | U |
Right cannot miss howe'er it swerve | U |
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Alas you failed who were so strong | V |
Shall I succeed so weak | W |
Life grows still shorter art more long | V |
You sang I scarce can speak | W |
Promethean fire | Q |
Within your lyre | X |
Made manly words with music mate | C |
Whilst I am scarce articulate | C |
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He sang too early to be heard | C |
The world is drowsy still | R |
And only those whose sleep is stirred | C |
By lines that streak the hill | R |
Or the first notes | F |
Of matin throats | F |
Have heard his strain 'mid hush of night | C |
And known it harbinger of Light | C |
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But when the Day shall come whose dawn | Y |
He early did forbode | C |
When men by Knowledge shall be drawn | Y |
Not driven by the goad | C |
This spot apart | C |
Where sleeps his heart | C |
Deaf to all clamour wrong or rage | Z |
Shall be their choicest pilgrimage | A2 |
Alfred Austin
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