To J. S. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGF HIJI KFKF LMLN OPOP FQFQ RSRS FTFT USUS VFWF IFXF YFZF A2B2A2B2 LFLF C2D2C2D2 D2E2D2E2 FF2FF2| The wind that beats the mountain blows | A |
| More softly round the open wold | B |
| And gently comes the world to those | A |
| That are cast in gentle mould | B |
| And me this knowledge bolder made | C |
| Or else I had not dare to flow | D |
| In these words toward you and invade | C |
| Even with a verse your holy woe | D |
| 'Tis strange that those we lean on most | E |
| Those in whose laps our limbs are nursed | F |
| Fall into shadow soonest lost | G |
| Those we love first are taken first | F |
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| God gives us love Something to love | H |
| He lends us but when love is grown | I |
| To ripeness that on which it throve | J |
| Falls off and love is left alone | I |
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| This is the curse of time Alas | K |
| In grief I am not all unlearn'd | F |
| Once thro' mine own doors Death did pass | K |
| One went who never hath return'd | F |
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| He will not smile not speak to me | L |
| Once more Two years his chair is seen | M |
| Empty before us That was he | L |
| Without whose life I had not been | N |
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| Your loss is rarer for this star | O |
| Rose with you thro' a little arc | P |
| Of heaven nor having wander'd far | O |
| Shot on the sudden into dark | P |
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| I knew your brother his mute dust | F |
| I honour and his living worth | Q |
| A man more pure and bold and just | F |
| Was never born into the earth | Q |
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| I have not look'd upon you nigh | R |
| Since that dear soul hath fall'n asleep | S |
| Great nature is more wise than I | R |
| I will not tell you not to weep | S |
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| And tho' mine own eyes fill with dew | F |
| Drawn from the spirit thro' the brain | T |
| I will not even preach to you | F |
| Weep weeping dulls the inward pain | T |
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| Let Grief be her own mistress still | U |
| She loveth her own anguish deep | S |
| More than much pleasure Let her will | U |
| Be done to weep or not to weep | S |
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| I will not say God's ordinance | V |
| Of death is blown in every wind | F |
| For that is not a common chance | W |
| That takes away a noble mind | F |
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| His memory long will live alone | I |
| In all our hearts as mournful light | F |
| That broods above the fallen sun | X |
| And dwells in heaven half the night | F |
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| Vain solace Memory standing near | Y |
| Cast down her eyes and in her throat | F |
| Her voice seem'd distant and a tear | Z |
| Dropt on the letters as I wrote | F |
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| I wrote I know not what In truth | A2 |
| How should I soothe you anyway | B2 |
| Who miss the brother of your youth | A2 |
| Yet something I did wish to say | B2 |
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| For he too was a friend to me | L |
| Both are my friends and my true breast | F |
| Bleedeth for both yet it may be | L |
| That only silence suiteth best | F |
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| Words weaker than your grief would make | C2 |
| Grief more 'Twere better I should cease | D2 |
| Although myself could almost take | C2 |
| The place of him that sleeps in peace | D2 |
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| Sleep sweetly tender heart in peace | D2 |
| Sleep holy spirit blessed soul | E2 |
| While the stars burn the moons increase | D2 |
| And the great ages onward roll | E2 |
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| Sleep till the end true soul and sweet | F |
| Nothing comes to thee new or strange | F2 |
| Sleep full of rest from head to feet | F |
| Lie still dry dust secure of change | F2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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