To... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLL MNNM OPPO QRRQ STTS| AFTER READING A LIFE AND LETTERS | A |
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| 'Cursed be he that moves my bones ' | - |
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| Shakespeare's Epitaph | B |
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| You might have won the Poet's name | C |
| If such be worth the winning now | D |
| And gain'd a laurel for your brow | D |
| Of sounder leaf than I can claim | C |
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| But you have made the wiser choice | E |
| A life that moves to gracious ends | F |
| Thro' troops of unrecording friends | F |
| A deedful life a silent voice | E |
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| And you have miss'd the irreverent doom | G |
| Of those that wear the Poet's crown | H |
| Hereafter neither knave nor clown | H |
| Shall hold their orgies at your tomb | G |
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| For now the Poet cannot die | I |
| Nor leave his music as of old | J |
| But round him ere he scarce be cold | J |
| Begins the scandal and the cry | I |
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| 'Proclaim the faults he would not show | K |
| Break lock and seal betray the trust | L |
| Keep nothing sacred 'tis but just | L |
| The many headed beast should know ' | - |
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| Ah shameless for he did but sing | M |
| A song that pleased us from its worth | N |
| No public life was his on earth | N |
| No blazon'd statesman he nor king | M |
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| He gave the people of his best | O |
| His worst he kept his best he gave | P |
| My Shakespeare's curse on clown and knave | P |
| Who will not let his ashes rest | O |
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| Who make it seem more sweet to be | Q |
| The little life of bank and brier | R |
| The bird that pipes his lone desire | R |
| And dies unheard within his tree | Q |
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| Than he that warbles long and loud | S |
| And drops at Glory's temple gates | T |
| For whom the carrion vulture waits | T |
| To tear his heart before the crowd | S |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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