Euthanatos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDEC FFFGCCG GGGGHHG IIIGJJG KKKLMML NNNAGGA OOOPQQP RRRARRA AAAISSI| In Memory of Mrs Thellusson | A |
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| Forth of our ways and woes | B |
| Forth of the winds and snows | B |
| A white soul soaring goes | B |
| Winged like a dove | C |
| So sweet so pure so clear | D |
| So heavenly tempered here | E |
| Love need not hope or fear her changed above | C |
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| Ere dawned her day to die | F |
| So heavenly that on high | F |
| Change could not glorify | F |
| Nor death refine her | G |
| Pure gold of perfect love | C |
| On earth like heaven's own dove | C |
| She cannot wear above a smile diviner | G |
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| Her voice in heaven's own quire | G |
| Can sound no heavenlier lyre | G |
| Than here no purer fire | G |
| Her soul can soar | G |
| No sweeter stars her eyes | H |
| In unimagined skies | H |
| Beyond our sight can rise than here before | G |
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| Hardly long years had shed | I |
| Their shadows on her head | I |
| Hardly we think her dead | I |
| Who hardly thought her | G |
| Old hardly can believe | J |
| The grief our hearts receive | J |
| And wonder while they grieve as wrong were wrought her | G |
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| But though strong grief be strong | K |
| No word or thought of wrong | K |
| May stain the trembling song | K |
| Wring the bruised heart | L |
| That sounds or sighs its faint | M |
| Low note of love nor taint | M |
| Grief for so sweet a saint when such depart | L |
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| A saint whose perfect soul | N |
| With perfect love for goal | N |
| Faith hardly might control | N |
| Creeds might not harden | A |
| A flower more splendid far | G |
| Than the most radiant star | G |
| Seen here of all that are in God's own garden | A |
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| Surely the stars we see | O |
| Rise and relapse as we | O |
| And change and set may be | O |
| But shadows too | P |
| But spirits that man's lot | Q |
| Could neither mar nor spot | Q |
| Like these false lights are not being heavenly true | P |
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| Not like these dying lights | R |
| Of worlds whose glory smites | R |
| The passage of the nights | R |
| Through heaven's blind prison | A |
| Not like their souls who see | R |
| If thought fly far and free | R |
| No heavenlier heaven to be for souls rerisen | A |
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| A soul wherein love shone | A |
| Even like the sun alone | A |
| With fervour of its own | A |
| And splendour fed | I |
| Made by no creeds less kind | S |
| Toward souls by none confined | S |
| Could Death's self quench or blind Love's self were dead | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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