In Memoriam A. H. H.: 118. Contemplate All This Work Of Tim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFE AGGA HIIH AJKA LMML| Contemplate all this work of Time | A |
| The giant labouring in his youth | B |
| Nor dream of human love and truth | B |
| As dying Nature's earth and lime | A |
| But trust that those we call the dead | C |
| Are breathers of an ampler day | D |
| For ever nobler ends They say | D |
| The solid earth whereon we tread | C |
| In tracts of fluent heat began | E |
| And grew to seeming random forms | F |
| The seeming prey of cyclic storms | F |
| Till at the last arose the man | E |
| - | |
| Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime | A |
| The herald of a higher race | G |
| And of himself in higher place | G |
| If so he type this work of time | A |
| - | |
| Within himself from more to more | H |
| Or crown'd with attributes of woe | I |
| Like glories move his course and show | I |
| That life is not as idle ore | H |
| - | |
| But iron dug from central gloom | A |
| And heated hot with burning fears | J |
| And dipt in baths of hissing tears | K |
| And batter'd with the shocks of doom | A |
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| To shape and use Arise and fly | L |
| The reeling Faun the sensual feast | M |
| Move upward working out the beast | M |
| And let the ape and tiger die | L |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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