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Obiit Mdcccxxxiii (entire) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFD GHHG IJJI KLLK MLLM NOON PQRP LSSL TRRU VWWV H XYYXZA2A2B2 LC2C2D2 E2F2G2E2 H YH2H2YE2I2I2E2 J2K2K2J2 LH2H2L H L2M2M2L2E2HHE2 N2E2E2N2 H2H2H2H2 C KO2O2KE2P2Q2M H2ZB2H2 C2VVC2 C E2R2R2E2E2VVE2 P2H2H2N C E2BBE2S2NNS2 CE2E2C CCH2C H2OOH2 T2KKU2 CRRC V2H2H2V2 H2W2W2H2 X2H2H2Y2 H2H2H2H2 C H2H2H2H2NZ2Z2N KE2E2K C U2OOT2H2A3A3H2 H2H2H2H2 RH2H2R H2CY2H2 CJ2J2C Y2 NY2Y2P2E2H2H2P2

Strong Son of God immortal Love	A
Whom we that have not seen thy face	B
By faith and faith alone embrace	B
Believing where we cannot prove	C
Thine are these orbs of light and shade	D
Thou madest Life in man and brute	E
Thou madest Death and lo thy foot	F
Is on the skull which thou hast made	D
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Thou wilt not leave us in the dust	G
Thou madest man he knows not why	H
He thinks he was not made to die	H
And thou hast made him thou art just	G
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Thou seemest human and divine	I
The highest holiest manhood thou	J
Our wills are ours we know not how	J
Our wills are ours to make them thine	I
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Our little systems have their day	K
They have their day and cease to be	L
They are but broken lights of thee	L
And thou O Lord art more than they	K
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We have but faith we cannot know	M
For knowledge is of things we see	L
And yet we trust it comes from thee	L
A beam in darkness let it grow	M
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Let knowledge grow from more to more	N
But more of reverence in us dwell	O
That mind and soul according well	O
May make one music as before	N
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But vaster We are fools and slight	P
We mock thee when we do not fear	Q
But help thy foolish ones to bear	R
Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light	P
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Forgive what seem d my sin in me	L
What seem d my worth since I began	S
For merit lives from man to man	S
And not from man O Lord to thee	L
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Forgive my grief for one removed	T
Thy creature whom I found so fair	R
I trust he lives in thee and there	R
I find him worthier to be loved	U
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Forgive these wild and wandering cries	V
Confusions of a wasted youth	W
Forgive them where they fail in truth	W
And in thy wisdom make me wise	V
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I	H
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I held it truth with him who sings	X
To one clear harp in divers tones	Y
That men may rise on stepping stones	Y
Of their dead selves to higher things	X
But who shall so forecast the years	Z
And find in loss a gain to match	A2
Or reach a hand thro time to catch	A2
The far off interest of tears	B2
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Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown d	L
Let darkness keep her raven gloss	C2
Ah sweeter to be drunk with loss	C2
To dance with death to beat the ground	D2
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Than that the victor Hours should scorn	E2
The long result of love and boast	F2
Behold the man that loved and lost	G2
But all he was is overworn	E2
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II	H
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Old Yew which graspest at the stones	Y
That name the under lying dead	H2
Thy fibres net the dreamless head	H2
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones	Y
The seasons bring the flower again	E2
And bring the firstling to the flock	I2
And in the dusk of thee the clock	I2
Beats out the little lives of men	E2
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O not for thee the glow the bloom	J2
Who changest not in any gale	K2
Nor branding summer suns avail	K2
To touch thy thousand years of gloom	J2
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And gazing on thee sullen tree	L
Sick for thy stubborn hardihood	H2
I seem to fail from out my blood	H2
And grow incorporate into thee	L
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III	H
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O Sorrow cruel fellowship	L2
O Priestess in the vaults of Death	M2
O sweet and bitter in a breath	M2
What whispers from thy lying lip	L2
The stars she whispers blindly run	E2
A web is wov n across the sky	H
From out waste places comes a cry	H
And murmurs from the dying sun	E2
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And all the phantom Nature stands	N2
With all the music in her tone	E2
A hollow echo of my own	E2
A hollow form with empty hands	N2
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And shall I take a thing so blind	H2
Embrace her as my natural good	H2
Or crush her like a vice of blood	H2
Upon the threshold of the mind	H2
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IV	C
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To Sleep I give my powers away	K
My will is bondsman to the dark	O2
I sit within a helmless bark	O2
And with my heart I muse and say	K
O heart how fares it with thee now	E2
That thou should st fail from thy desire	P2
Who scarcely darest to inquire	Q2
What is it makes me beat so low	M
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Something it is which thou hast lost	H2
Some pleasure from thine early years	Z
Break thou deep vase of chilling tears	B2
That grief hath shaken into frost	H2
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Such clouds of nameless trouble cross	C2
All night below the darken d eyes	V
With morning wakes the will and cries	V
Thou shalt not be the fool of loss	C2
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V	C
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I sometimes hold it half a sin	E2
To put in words the grief I feel	R2
For words like Nature half reveal	R2
And half conceal the Soul within	E2
But for the unquiet heart and brain	E2
A use in measured language lies	V
The sad mechanic exercise	V
Like dull narcotics numbing pain	E2
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In words like weeds I ll wrap me o er	P2
Like coarsest clothes against the cold	H2
But that large grief which these enfold	H2
Is given in outline and no more	N
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VI	C
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One writes that Other friends remain	E2
That Loss is common to the race	B
And common is the commonplace	B
And vacant chaff well meant for grain	E2
That loss is common would not make	S2
My own less bitter rather more	N
Too common Never morning wore	N
To evening but some heart did break	S2
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O father wheresoe er thou be	C
Who pledgest now thy gallant son	E2
A shot ere half thy draught be done	E2
Hath still d the life that beat from thee	C
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O mother praying God will save	C
Thy sailor while thy head is bow d	C
His heavy shotted hammock shroud	H2
Drops in his vast and wandering grave	C
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Ye know no more than I who wrought	H2
At that last hour to please him well	O
Who mused on all I had to tell	O
And something written something thought	H2
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Expecting still his advent home	T2
And ever met him on his way	K
With wishes thinking here to day	K
Or here to morrow will he come	U2
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O somewhere meek unconscious dove	C
That sittest ranging golden hair	R
And glad to find thyself so fair	R
Poor child that waitest for thy love	C
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For now her father s chimney glows	V2
In expectation of a guest	H2
And thinking this will please him best	H2
She takes a riband or a rose	V2
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For he will see them on to night	H2
And with the thought her colour burns	W2
And having left the glass she turns	W2
Once more to set a ringlet right	H2
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And even when she turn d the curse	X2
Had fallen and her future Lord	H2
Was drown d in passing thro the ford	H2
Or kill d in falling from his horse	Y2
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O what to her shall be the end	H2
And what to me remains of good	H2
To her perpetual maidenhood	H2
And unto me no second friend	H2
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VII	C
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Dark house by which once more I stand	H2
Here in the long unlovely street	H2
Doors where my heart was used to beat	H2
So quickly waiting for a hand	H2
A hand that can be clasp d no more	N
Behold me for I cannot sleep	Z2
And like a guilty thing I creep	Z2
At earliest morning to the door	N
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He is not here but far away	K
The noise of life begins again	E2
And ghastly thro the drizzling rain	E2
On the bald street breaks the blank day	K
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VIII	C
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A happy lover who has come	U2
To look on her that loves him well	O
Who lights and rings the gateway bell	O
And learns her gone and far from home	T2
He saddens all the magic light	H2
Dies off at once from bower and hall	A3
And all the place is dark and all	A3
The chambers emptied of delight	H2
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So find I every pleasant spot	H2
In which we two were wont to meet	H2
The field the chamber and the street	H2
For all is dark where thou art not	H2
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Yet as that other wandering there	R
In those deserted walks may find	H2
A flower beat with rain and wind	H2
Which once she foster'd up with care	R
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So seems it in my deep regret	H2
O my forsaken heart with thee	C
And this poor flower of poesy	Y2
Which little cared for fades not yet	H2
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But since it pleased a vanish d eye	C
I go to plant it on his tomb	J2
That if it can it there may bloom	J2
Or dying there at least may die	C
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IX	Y2
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Fair ship that from the Italian shore	N
Sailest the placid ocean plains	Y2
With my lost Arthur s loved remains	Y2
Spread thy full wings and waft him o er	P2
So draw him home to those that mourn	E2
In vain a favourable speed	H2
Ruffle thy mirror d mast and lead	H2
Thro prosperous floods his holy ur	P2

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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