In Memoriam A. H. H.: 105. To-night Ungather'd Let Us Leave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDEFGGF HIJH KLLK MCCM NOPN| To night ungather'd let us leave | A |
| This laurel let this holly stand | B |
| We live within the stranger's land | B |
| And strangely falls our Christmas eve | A |
| Our father's dust is left alone | C |
| And silent under other snows | D |
| There in due time the woodbine blows | D |
| The violet comes but we are gone | E |
| No more shall wayward grief abuse | F |
| The genial hour with mask and mime | G |
| For change of place like growth of time | G |
| Has broke the bond of dying use | F |
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| Let cares that petty shadows cast | H |
| By which our lives are chiefly proved | I |
| A little spare the night I loved | J |
| And hold it solemn to the past | H |
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| But let no footstep beat the floor | K |
| Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm | L |
| For who would keep an ancient form | L |
| Thro' which the spirit breathes no more | K |
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| Be neither song nor game nor feast | M |
| Nor harp be touch'd nor flute be blown | C |
| No dance no motion save alone | C |
| What lightens in the lucid east | M |
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| Of rising worlds by yonder wood | N |
| Long sleeps the summer in the seed | O |
| Run out your measured arcs and lead | P |
| The closing cycle rich in good | N |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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