Dedication From "astrophel And Other Poems" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGHBHBHIHI AJAJGGGGKLKLGMGMNONO PIPIGGGGKQKQRSRSKTKT EJEJCCCCCGCGKUKUGVGV GKGKKEKECWCXYGKGEGEG KGKG

The sea of the years that endure notA
Whose tide shall endure till we dieB
And know what the seasons assure notA
If death be or life be a lieB
Sways hither the spirit and thitherC
A waif in the swing of the seaD
Whose wrecks are of memories that witherC
As leaves of a treeD
We hear not and hail not with greetingE
The sound of the wings of the yearsF
The storm of the sound of them beatingE
That none till it pass from him hearsG
But tempest nor calm can imperilH
The treasures that fade not or flyB
Change bids them not change and be sterileH
Death bids them not dieB
Hearts plighted in youth to the royalH
High service of hope and of songI
Sealed fast for endurance as loyalH
And proved of the years as they throngI
Conceive not believe not and fear notA
That age may be other than youthJ
That faith and that friendship may hear notA
And utter not truthJ
Not yesterday's light nor to morrow'sG
Gleams nearer or clearer than gleamsG
Though joys be forgotten and sorrowsG
Forgotten as changes of dreamsG
The dawn of the days unforgottenK
That noon could eclipse not or slayL
Whose fruits were as children begottenK
Of dawn upon dayL
The years that were flowerful and fruitlessG
The years that were fruitful and darkM
The hopes that were radiant and rootlessG
The hopes that were winged for their markM
Lie soft in the sepulchres fashionedN
Of hours that arise and subsideO
Absorbed and subdued and impassionedN
In pain or in prideO
But far in the night that entombs themP
The starshine as sunshine is strongI
And clear through the cloud that resumes themP
Remembrance a light and a songI
Rings lustrous as music and hoversG
As birds that impend on the seaG
And thoughts that their prison house coversG
Arise and are freeG
Forgetfulness deep as a prisonK
Holds days that are dead for us fastQ
Till the sepulchre sees rearisenK
The spirit whose reign is the pastQ
Disentrammelled of darkness and kindledR
With life that is mightier than deathS
When the life that obscured it has dwindledR
And passed as a breathS
But time nor oblivion may darkenK
Remembrance whose name will be joyT
While memory forgets not to hearkenK
While manhood forgets not the boyT
Who heard and exulted in hearingE
The songs of the sunrise of youthJ
Ring radiant above him unfearingE
And joyous as truthJ
Truth winged and enkindled with raptureC
And sense of the radiance of yoreC
Fulfilled you with power to recaptureC
What never might singer beforeC
The life the delight and the sorrowC
Of troublous and chivalrous yearsG
That knew not of night or of morrowC
Of hopes or of fearsG
But wider the wing and the visionK
That quicken the spirit have spreadU
Since memory beheld with derisionK
Man's hope to be more than his deadU
From the mists and the snows and the thundersG
Your spirit has brought for us forthV
Light music and joy in the wondersG
And charms of the northV
The wars and the woes and the gloriesG
That quicken and lighten and rainK
From the clouds of its chronicled storiesG
The passion the pride and the painK
Whose echoes were mute and the tokenK
Was lost of the spells that they spakeE
Rise bright at your bidding unbrokenK
Of ages that breakE
For you and for none of us otherC
Time is not the dead that must liveW
Hold commune with you as a brotherC
By grace of the life that you giveX
The heart that was in them is in youY
Their soul in your spirit enduresG
The strength of their song is the sinewK
Of this that is yoursG
Hence is it that life everlastingE
As light and as music abidesG
In the sound of the surge of it castingE
Sound back to the surge of the tidesG
Till sons of the sons of the NorsemenK
Watch hurtling to windward and leeG
Round England unbacked of her horsemenK
The steeds of the seaG

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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