John Everett Millais Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFFFE GHGHIIIH JKJKLLLK MNMNOOON PQPQMMMQ| Now let no passing bell be tolled | A |
| Wail now no dirge of gloom | B |
| Nor around purple pall unfold | A |
| The trappings of the tomb | B |
| Dead No the Artist doth not die | C |
| Enduring as the air the sky | C |
| He sees the mortal years roll by | C |
| Indifferent to their doom | B |
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| With the abiding He abides | D |
| Eternally the same | E |
| From shore to shore Time's sounding tides | D |
| Roll and repeat His name | E |
| Death the kind pilot from His home | F |
| But speeds Him unto widening foam | F |
| Then leaves Him sunk from sight to roam | F |
| The ocean of his Fame | E |
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| Nor thus himself alone He lives | G |
| But by the magic known | H |
| To His so potent art '' He gives | G |
| Life lasting as His own | H |
| See on the canvas foiling Fate | I |
| With kindling gaze and flashing gait | I |
| Dead Statesmen still defend the State | I |
| And vindicate the Throne | H |
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| Stayed by His hand the loved the lost | J |
| Still keep their wonted place | K |
| And fondly fooled our hearts accost | J |
| The vanished form and face | K |
| Beauty most frail of earthly shows | L |
| That fades as fleetly as it blows | L |
| By Him arrested gleams and glows | L |
| With never waning grace | K |
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| His too the wizard power to bring | M |
| When city pent we be | N |
| The matron Autumn maiden Spring | M |
| Bracken and birchen tree | N |
| Look 'twixt gray boulders fringed with fern | O |
| The tawny torrents chafe and churn | O |
| And lined with light the amber burn | O |
| Goes bounding to the sea | N |
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| Toll then for Him no funeral knell | P |
| Nor around aisle and nave | Q |
| Let sorrow's farewell anthem swell | P |
| Nor solemn symbols wave | Q |
| Your very brightest banners bring | M |
| Your gayest flowers Sing voices sing | M |
| And let Fame's lofty joybells ring | M |
| Their greeting at His grave | Q |
Alfred Austin
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