Dedication - A Channel Passage And Other Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHEIEI EJEJKCKCELELEMEMNNNN NNNNOPOPEFEFONONQRSR ENENNLNLNENEATATECEC NUNUEHEHNFNFNLNLVWVW CNCN| The sea that is life everlasting | A |
| And death everlasting as life | B |
| Abides not a pilot's forecasting | A |
| Foretells not of peace or of strife | B |
| The might of the night that was hidden | C |
| Arises and darkens the day | D |
| A glory rebuked and forbidden | C |
| Time's crown and his prey | D |
| No sweeter no kindlier no fairer | E |
| No lovelier a soul from its birth | F |
| Wore ever a brighter and rarer | E |
| Life's raiment for life upon earth | F |
| Than his who enkindled and cherished | G |
| Art's vestal and luminous flame | H |
| That dies not when kingdoms have perished | G |
| In storm or in shame | H |
| No braver no trustier no purer | E |
| No stronger and clearer a soul | I |
| Bore witness more splendid and surer | E |
| For manhood found perfect and whole | I |
| Since man was a warrior and dreamer | E |
| Than his who in hatred of wrong | J |
| Would fain have arisen a redeemer | E |
| By sword or by song | J |
| Twin brethren in spirit immortal | K |
| As art and as love which were one | C |
| For you from the birthday whose portal | K |
| First gave you to sight of the sun | C |
| To day nor to night nor to morrow | E |
| May bring you again from above | L |
| Drawn down by the spell of the sorrow | E |
| Whose anguish is love | L |
| No light rearising hereafter | E |
| Shall lighten us here as of old | M |
| When seasons were lustrous as laughter | E |
| Of waves that are snowshine and gold | M |
| The dawn that imbues and enkindles | N |
| Life's fluctuant and fugitive sea | N |
| Dies down as the starshine that dwindles | N |
| And cares not to be | N |
| Men mightier than death which divides us | N |
| Friends dearer than sorrow can say | N |
| The light that is darkness and hides us | N |
| Awhile from each other away | N |
| Abides but awhile and endures not | O |
| We know though the day be as night | P |
| For souls that forgetfulness lures not | O |
| Till sleep be in sight | P |
| The sleep that enfolds you the slumber | E |
| Supreme and eternal on earth | F |
| Whence ages of numberless number | E |
| Shall bring us not back into birth | F |
| We know not indeed if it be not | O |
| What no man hath known if it be | N |
| Life quickened with light that we see not | O |
| If spirits may see | N |
| The love that would see and would know it | Q |
| Is even as the love of a child | R |
| But the fire of the fame of the poet | S |
| Who gazed on the past and it smiled | R |
| But the light of the fame of the painter | E |
| Whose hand was as morning's in May | N |
| Death bids not be darker or fainter | E |
| Time casts not away | N |
| We left of them loveless and lonely | N |
| Who lived in the light of their love | L |
| Whose darkness desires it we only | N |
| Who see them afar and above | L |
| So far if we die not above us | N |
| So lately no dearer than near | E |
| May know not of death if they love us | N |
| Of night if they hear | E |
| We stricken and darkling and living | A |
| Who loved them and love them abide | T |
| A day and the gift of its giving | A |
| An hour and the turn of its tide | T |
| When twilight and midnight and morrow | E |
| Shall pass from the sight of the sun | C |
| And death be forgotten and sorrow | E |
| Discrowned and undone | C |
| For us as for these will the breathless | N |
| Brief minute arise and pass by | U |
| And if death be not utterly deathless | N |
| If love do not utterly die | U |
| From the life that is quenched as an ember | E |
| The soul that aspires as a flame | H |
| Can choose not but wholly remember | E |
| Love lovelier than fame | H |
| Though sure be the seal of their glory | N |
| And fairer no fame upon earth | F |
| Though never a leaf shall grow hoary | N |
| Of the crowns that were given them at birth | F |
| While time as a vassal doth duty | N |
| To names that he towers not above | L |
| More perfect in price and in beauty | N |
| For ever is love | L |
| The night is upon us and anguish | V |
| Of longing that yearns for the dead | W |
| But mourners that faint not or languish | V |
| That veil not and bow not the head | W |
| Take comfort to heart if a token | C |
| Be given them of comfort to be | N |
| While darkness on earth is unbroken | C |
| Light lives on the sea | N |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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