On A Mourner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCC A DEDEE A FGFG H IJIJJ H KLKLL H MNMNN H OPOPP| I | A |
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| Nature so far as in her lies | B |
| Imitates God and turns her face | C |
| To every land beneath the skies | B |
| Counts nothing that she meets with base | C |
| But lives and loves in every place | C |
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| II | A |
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| Fills out the homely quickset screens | D |
| And makes the purple lilac ripe | E |
| Steps from her airy hill and greens | D |
| The swamp where humm'd the dropping snipe | E |
| With moss and braided marish pipe | E |
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| III | A |
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| And on thy heart a finger lays | F |
| Saying 'Beat quicker for the time | G |
| Is pleasant and the woods and ways | F |
| Are pleasant and the beech and lime | G |
| Put forth and feel a gladder clime ' | - |
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| IV | H |
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| And murmurs of a deeper voice | I |
| Going before to some far shrine | J |
| Teach that sick heart the stronger choice | I |
| Till all thy life one way incline | J |
| With one wide Will that closes thine | J |
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| V | H |
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| And when the zoning eve has died | K |
| Where yon dark valleys wind forlorn | L |
| Come Hope and Memory spouse and bride | K |
| From out the borders of the morn | L |
| With that fair child betwixt them born | L |
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| VI | H |
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| And when no mortal motion jars | M |
| The blackness round the tombing sod | N |
| Thro' silence and the trembling stars | M |
| Comes Faith from tracts no feet have trod | N |
| And Virtue like a household god | N |
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| VII | H |
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| Promising empire such as those | O |
| Once heard at dead of night to greet | P |
| Troy's wandering prince so that he rose | O |
| With sacrifice while all the fleet | P |
| Had rest by stony hills of Crete | P |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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