George Eliot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHIJKLMNOJJ PQNNGNJRSTUVWXYZA2NB 2C2D2E2F2NG2H2C2I2J2 K2NL2M2NN2O2P2NNSN NQ2A2NC2F2R2C2NS2OT2 NUNU2XV2

Dead Is she deadA
And all that light extinguishedB
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Mend your wordsC
Those gropings of the blind along plain pathsD
Where all the Heavens are shining Know you notE
Though the Eternal Luminary dipsF
Below our cramped horizon leaving hereG
Only a train of glory he but goesH
To dawn on other and neglected worldsI
Benighted of his presence So with herJ
Whose round imagination like the sunK
Drew the sad mists of the low lying earthL
Up to her own great altitude and thereM
Made them in smiling tears evaporateN
Announce the sun's self dead and o'er him rollO
An epitaph of darkness then averJ
She too has set for everJ
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Think it thusP
If for sweet comfort's sake What we call deathQ
Is but another sentinel despatchedN
To relieve life weary of being on guardN
Whose active service is not ended hereG
But after intermission is renewedN
In other fields of duty This to herJ
Was an uncertain promise since it seemsR
Unto the eye of seriousness unrealS
That like a child death should but play with lifeT
Blowing it out to blow it in againU
This contradiction over now she standsV
Certain of all uncertainty and dwellsW
Where death the sophist puzzles life no moreX
But with disdainful silence or clear proofY
Confuted is for ever Yet our lossZ
By others' gain is mended not and weA2
Sit in the darkness that her light hath leftN
Comfort our grief with symbols as we willB2
Her empty throne stares stony in our faceC2
And with a dumb relentlessness proclaimsD2
That she has gone for ever for ever goneE2
Returning not How plain I see her nowF2
The twilight tresses deepening into nightN
The brow a benediction and the eyesG2
Seat where compassion never set and likeH2
That firm fixed star which altereth not its placeC2
While all the planets round it sink and swimI2
Shone with a steady guidance O and a voiceJ2
Matched with whose modulations softest notesK2
Of dulcimer by daintiest fingers strokedN
Or zephyrs wafted over summer seasL2
On summer shores subsiding sounded harshM2
Listening whereto steeled obduracy feltN
The need to kneel necessity to weepN2
And craving to be comforted a shrineO2
Of music and of incense and of flowersP2
Where hearts at length self challenged were contentN
Still to be sad and sinful so they mightN
Feel that exonerating pity stealS
In subtle absolution on their guiltN
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Dead Never deadN
That this man's insignificant domainQ2
Which is not boundary of space should beA2
The boundary of life revolts the mindN
Even when bounded Into soaring spaceC2
Soar spacious spirit unembarrassed nowF2
By earthly boundaries and circle upR2
Into the Heaven of Heavens and take thy placeC2
Where the Eternal Morning broadens outN
To recognise thy coming Realm on RealmS2
Of changeless revolution round thee rollO
Thou moving with them and among the starsT2
Shine thou a star long looked for or unbuoyedN
Beyond the constellations of our kenU
Traverse the infinite azure with thy heartN
And with love's light elucidate the SpheresU2
While we below this meek libation pourX
Mingled of honey and hyssop on thy graveV2

Alfred Austin



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