After Nine Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A AABBAAA CCDDEEE AAAAFFF DDGGHHH IIAADDD HHJJAAA DDKKAAATo Joseph Mazzini | A |
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Prim dicte mihi summ dicende Camen | A |
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The shadows fallen of years are nine | A |
Since heaven grew seven times more divine | A |
With thy soul entering and the dearth | B |
Of souls on earth | B |
Grew sevenfold sadder wanting One | A |
Whose light of life quenched here and done | A |
Burns there eternal as the sun | A |
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Beyond all word beyond all deed | C |
Beyond all thought beloved what need | C |
Has death or love that speech should be | D |
Hast thou of me | D |
I had no word no prayer no cry | E |
To praise or hail or mourn thee by | E |
As when thou too wast man as I | E |
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Nay never nor as any born | A |
Save one whose name priests turn to scorn | A |
Who haply though we know not now | A |
Was man as thou | A |
A wanderer branded with men's blame | F |
Loved past man's utterance yea the same | F |
Perchance and as his name thy name | F |
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Thou wast as very Christ not he | D |
Degraded into Deity | D |
And priest polluted by such prayer | G |
As poisons air | G |
Tongue worship of the tongue that slays | H |
False faith and parricidal praise | H |
But the man crowned with suffering days | H |
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God only being of all mankind | I |
Most manlike of most equal mind | I |
And heart most perfect more than can | A |
Be heart of man | A |
Once in ten ages born to be | D |
As haply Christ was and as we | D |
Knew surely seeing and worshipped thee | D |
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To know thee this at least was ours | H |
God clothed upon with human hours | H |
O face beloved O spirit adored | J |
Saviour and lord | J |
That wast not only for thine own | A |
Redeemer not of these alone | A |
But all to whom thy word was known | A |
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Ten years have wrought their will with me | D |
Since last my words took wing for thee | D |
Who then wast even as now above | K |
Me and my love | K |
As then thou knewest not scorn so now | A |
With that beloved benignant brow | A |
Take these of him whose light wast thou | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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