In Memoriam A. H. H.: 55. The Wish, That Of The Living Whol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEEDFGGF HIIH JKKJ| The wish that of the living whole | A |
| No life may fail beyond the grave | B |
| Derives it not from what we have | C |
| The likest God within the soul | A |
| Are God and Nature then at strife | D |
| That Nature lends such evil dreams | E |
| So careful of the type she seems | E |
| So careless of the single life | D |
| That I considering everywhere | F |
| Her secret meaning in her deeds | G |
| And finding that of fifty seeds | G |
| She often brings but one to bear | F |
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| I falter where I firmly trod | H |
| And falling with my weight of cares | I |
| Upon the great world's altar stairs | I |
| That slope thro' darkness up to God | H |
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| I stretch lame hands of faith and grope | J |
| And gather dust and chaff and call | K |
| To what I feel is Lord of all | K |
| And faintly trust the larger hope | J |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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