An Evening At Vichy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCBCDEFEEFEGHGHH GHIJKJJIJLMLMMLMNONO ONOOBOBBOBPQPQQPQORO RROR| Written on the news of the death of Lord Leighton | A |
| A light has passed that never shall pass away | B |
| A sun has set whose rays are unquelled of night | C |
| The loyal grace the courtesy bright as day | B |
| The strong sweet radiant spirit of life and light | C |
| That shone and smiled and lightened on all men's sight | C |
| The kindly life whose tune was the tune of May | B |
| For us now dark for love and for fame is bright | C |
| Nay not for us that live as the fen fires live | D |
| As stars that shoot and shudder with life and die | E |
| Can death make dark that lustre of life or give | F |
| The grievous gift of trust in oblivion's lie | E |
| Days dear and far death touches and draws them nigh | E |
| And bids the grief that broods on their graves forgive | F |
| The day that seems to mock them as clouds that fly | E |
| If life be life more faithful than shines on sleep | G |
| When dreams take wing and lighten and fade like flame | H |
| Then haply death may be not a death so deep | G |
| That all things past are past for it wholly fame | H |
| Love loving kindness seasons that went and came | H |
| And left their light on life as a seal to keep | G |
| Winged memory fast and heedful of time's dead claim | H |
| Death gives back life and light to the sunless years | I |
| Whose suns long sunken set not for ever Time | J |
| Blind fierce and deaf as tempest relents and hears | K |
| And sees how bright the days and how sweet their chime | J |
| Rang shone and passed in music that matched the clime | J |
| Wherein we met rejoicing a joy that cheers | I |
| Sorrow to see the night as the dawn sublime | J |
| The days that were outlighten the days that are | L |
| And eyes now darkened shine as the stars we see | M |
| And hear not sing impassionate star to star | L |
| As once we heard the music that haply he | M |
| Hears high in heaven if ever a voice may be | M |
| The same in heaven the same as on earth afar | L |
| From pain and earth as heaven from the heaving sea | M |
| A woman's voice divine as a bird's by dawn | N |
| Kindled and stirred to sunward arose and held | O |
| Our souls that heard from earth as from sleep withdrawn | N |
| And filled with light as stars and as stars compelled | O |
| To move by might of music elate while quelled | O |
| Subdued by rapture lit as a mountain lawn | N |
| By morning whence all heaven in the sunrise welled | O |
| And her the shadow of death as a robe clasped round | O |
| Then and as morning's music she passed away | B |
| And he then with us warrior and wanderer crowned | O |
| With fame that shone from eastern on western day | B |
| More strong more kind than praise or than grief might say | B |
| Has passed now forth of shadow by sunlight bound | O |
| Of night shot through with light that is frail as May | B |
| May dies and light grows darkness and life grows death | P |
| Hope fades and shrinks and falls as a changing leaf | Q |
| Remembrance touched and kindled by love's live breath | P |
| Shines and subdues the shadow of time called grief | Q |
| The shade whose length of life is as life's date brief | Q |
| With joy that broods on the sunlight past and saith | P |
| That thought and love hold sorrow and change in fief | Q |
| Sweet glad bright spirit kind as the sun seems kind | O |
| When earth and sea rejoice in his gentler spell | R |
| Thy face that was we see not bereft and blind | O |
| We see but yet rejoicing to see and dwell | R |
| Awhile in days that heard not the death day's knell | R |
| A light so bright that scarcely may sorrow find | O |
| One old sweet word that hails thee and mourns Farewell | R |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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