After Nine Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A A AABBAAA CCDDEEE AAAAFFF DDGGHHH IIAADDD HHJJAAA DDKKAAA

To Joseph MazziniA
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Prim dicte mihi summ dicende CamenA
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The shadows fallen of years are nineA
Since heaven grew seven times more divineA
With thy soul entering and the dearthB
Of souls on earthB
Grew sevenfold sadder wanting OneA
Whose light of life quenched here and doneA
Burns there eternal as the sunA
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Beyond all word beyond all deedC
Beyond all thought beloved what needC
Has death or love that speech should beD
Hast thou of meD
I had no word no prayer no cryE
To praise or hail or mourn thee byE
As when thou too wast man as IE
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Nay never nor as any bornA
Save one whose name priests turn to scornA
Who haply though we know not nowA
Was man as thouA
A wanderer branded with men's blameF
Loved past man's utterance yea the sameF
Perchance and as his name thy nameF
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Thou wast as very Christ not heD
Degraded into DeityD
And priest polluted by such prayerG
As poisons airG
Tongue worship of the tongue that slaysH
False faith and parricidal praiseH
But the man crowned with suffering daysH
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God only being of all mankindI
Most manlike of most equal mindI
And heart most perfect more than canA
Be heart of manA
Once in ten ages born to beD
As haply Christ was and as weD
Knew surely seeing and worshipped theeD
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To know thee this at least was oursH
God clothed upon with human hoursH
O face beloved O spirit adoredJ
Saviour and lordJ
That wast not only for thine ownA
Redeemer not of these aloneA
But all to whom thy word was knownA
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Ten years have wrought their will with meD
Since last my words took wing for theeD
Who then wast even as now aboveK
Me and my loveK
As then thou knewest not scorn so nowA
With that beloved benignant browA
Take these of him whose light wast thouA

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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