After Looking Into Carlyles Reminiscences - Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDDEFGE A EHHEEHHEBBIJJI| I | 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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