Anima Anceps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCBDDDBEEEB FFFGAAAGCCCGCCCG EEEHEEEHEEEHFFFH| TILL death have broken | A |
| Sweet life s love token | A |
| Till all be spoken | A |
| That shall be said | B |
| What dost thou praying | C |
| O soul and playing | C |
| With song and saying | C |
| Things flown and fled | B |
| For this we know not | D |
| That fresh springs flow not | D |
| And fresh griefs grow not | D |
| When men are dead | B |
| When strange years cover | E |
| Lover and lover | E |
| And joys are over | E |
| And tears are shed | B |
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| If one day s sorrow | F |
| Mar the day s morrow | F |
| If man s life borrow | F |
| And man s death pay | G |
| If souls once taken | A |
| If lives once shaken | A |
| Arise awaken | A |
| By night by day | G |
| Why with strong crying | C |
| And years of sighing | C |
| Living and dying | C |
| Fast ye and pray | G |
| For all your weeping | C |
| Waking and sleeping | C |
| Death comes to reaping | C |
| And takes away | G |
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| Though time rend after | E |
| Roof tree from rafter | E |
| A little laughter | E |
| Is much more worth | H |
| Than thus to measure | E |
| The hour the treasure | E |
| The pain the pleasure | E |
| The death the birth | H |
| Grief when days alter | E |
| Like joy shall falter | E |
| Song book and psalter | E |
| Mourning and mirth | H |
| Live like the swallow | F |
| Seek not to follow | F |
| Where earth is hollow | F |
| Under the earth | H |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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