After Looking Into Carlyles Reminiscences - Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDDEFGE A EHHEEHHEBBIJJII | A |
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Three men lived yet when this dead man was young | B |
Whose names and words endure for ever one | C |
Whose eyes grew dim with straining toward the sun | C |
And his wings weakened and his angel's tongue | B |
Lost half the sweetest song was ever sung | B |
But like the strain half uttered earth hears none | C |
Nor shall man hear till all men's songs are done | C |
One whose clear spirit like an eagle hung | B |
Between the mountains hallowed by his love | D |
And the sky stainless as his soul above | D |
And one the sweetest heart that ever spake | E |
The brightest words wherein sweet wisdom smiled | F |
These deathless names by this dead snake denied | G |
Bid memory spit upon him for their sake | E |
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II | A |
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Sweet heart forgive me for thine own sweet sake | E |
Whose kind blithe soul such seas of sorrow swam | H |
And for my love's sake powerless as I am | H |
For love to praise thee or like thee to make | E |
Music of mirth where hearts less pure would break | E |
Less pure than thine our life unspotted Lamb | H |
Things hatefullest thou hadst not heart to damn | H |
Nor wouldst have set thine heel on this dead snake | E |
Let worms consume its memory with its tongue | B |
The fang that stabbed fair Truth the lip that stung | B |
Men's memories uncorroded with its breath | I |
Forgive me that with bitter words like his | J |
I mix the gentlest English name that is | J |
The tenderest held of all that know not death | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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