In Memory Of John William Inchbold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFGHIHIJKJK LELEMKMKENENOPOPQRQS TUTUEFEFVWVWXYXYZWZW A2EA2EB2DB2DB2BB2CRC 2RC2FD2FD2B2E2B2E2B2 QB2QF2G2F2G2VOVNBYCY H2I2H2I2J2IJ2IEK2EK2 L2M2L2N2CABA| Farewell how should not such as thou fare well | A |
| Though we fare ill that love thee and that live | B |
| And know whate'er the days wherein we dwell | A |
| May give us thee again they will not give | C |
| Peace rest and sleep are all we know of death | D |
| And all we dream of comfort yet for thee | E |
| Whose breath of life was bright and strenuous breath | D |
| We think the change is other than we see | E |
| The seal of sleep set on thine eyes to day | F |
| Surely can seal not up the keen swift light | G |
| That lit them once for ever Night can slay | F |
| None save the children of the womb of night | G |
| The fire that burns up dawn to bring forth noon | H |
| Was father of thy spirit how shouldst thou | I |
| Die as they die for whom the sun and moon | H |
| Are silent Thee the darkness holds not now | I |
| Them while they looked upon the light and deemed | J |
| That life was theirs for living in the sun | K |
| The darkness held in bondage and they dreamed | J |
| Who knew not that such life as theirs was none | K |
| To thee the sun spake and the morning sang | L |
| Notes deep and clear as life or heaven the sea | E |
| That sounds for them but wild waste music rang | L |
| Notes that were lost not when they rang for thee | E |
| The mountains clothed with light and night and change | M |
| The lakes alive with wind and cloud and sun | K |
| Made answer by constraint sublime and strange | M |
| To the ardent hand that bade thy will be done | K |
| We may not bid the mountains mourn the sea | E |
| That lived and lightened from thine hand again | N |
| Moan as of old would men that mourned as we | E |
| A man beloved a man elect of men | N |
| A man that loved them Vain divine and vain | O |
| The dream that touched with thoughts or tears of ours | P |
| The spirit of sense that lives in sun and rain | O |
| Sings out in birds and breathes and fades in flowers | P |
| Not for our joy they live and for our grief | Q |
| They die not Though thine eye be closed thine hand | R |
| Powerless as mine to paint them not a leaf | Q |
| In English woods or glades of Switzerland | S |
| Falls earlier now fades faster All our love | T |
| Moves not our mother's changeless heart who gives | U |
| A little light to eyes and stars above | T |
| A little life to each man's heart that lives | U |
| A little life to heaven and earth and sea | E |
| To stars and souls revealed of night and day | F |
| And change the one thing changeless yet shall she | E |
| Cease too perchance and perish Who shall say | F |
| Our mother Nature dark and sweet as sleep | V |
| And strange as life and strong as death holds fast | W |
| Even as she holds our hearts alive the deep | V |
| Dumb secret of her first born births and last | W |
| But this we know shall cease not till the strife | X |
| Of nights and days and fears and hopes find end | Y |
| This through the brief eternities of life | X |
| Endures and calls from death a living friend | Y |
| The love made strong with knowledge whence confirmed | Z |
| The whole soul takes assurance and the past | W |
| So by time's measure not by memory's termed | Z |
| Lives present life and mingles first with last | W |
| I now long since thy guest of many days | A2 |
| Who found thy hearth a brother's and with thee | E |
| Tracked in and out the lines of rolling bays | A2 |
| And banks and gulfs and reaches of the sea | E |
| Deep dens wherein the wrestling water sobs | B2 |
| And pants with restless pain of refluent breath | D |
| Till all the sunless hollow sounds and throbs | B2 |
| With ebb and flow of eddies dark as death | D |
| I know not what more glorious world what waves | B2 |
| More bright with life if brighter aught may live | B |
| Than those that filled and fled their tidal caves | B2 |
| May now give back the love thou hast to give | C |
| Tintagel and the long Trebarwith sand | R |
| Lone Camelford and Boscastle divine | C2 |
| With dower of southern blossom bright and bland | R |
| Above the roar of granite baffled brine | C2 |
| Shall hear no more by joyous night or day | F |
| From downs or causeways good to rove and ride | D2 |
| Or feet of ours or horse hoofs urge their way | F |
| That sped us here and there by tower and tide | D2 |
| The headlands and the hollows and the waves | B2 |
| For all our love forget us where I am | E2 |
| Thou art not deeper sleeps the shadow on graves | B2 |
| Than in the sunless gulf that once we swam | E2 |
| Thou hast swum too soon the sea of death for us | B2 |
| Too soon but if truth bless love's blind belief | Q |
| Faith born of hope and memory says not thus | B2 |
| And joy for thee for me should mean not grief | Q |
| And joy for thee if ever soul of man | F2 |
| Found joy in change and life of ampler birth | G2 |
| Than here pens in the spirit for a span | F2 |
| Must be the life that doubt calls death on earth | G2 |
| For if beyond the shadow and the sleep | V |
| A place there be for souls without a stain | O |
| Where peace is perfect and delight more deep | V |
| Than seas or skies that change and shine again | N |
| There none of all unsullied souls that live | B |
| May hold a surer station none may lend | Y |
| More light to hope's or memory's lamp nor give | C |
| More joy than thine to those that called thee friend | Y |
| Yea joy from sorrow's barren womb is born | H2 |
| When faith begets on grief the godlike child | I2 |
| As midnight yearns with starry sense of morn | H2 |
| In Arctic summers though the sea wax wild | I2 |
| So love whose name is memory thrills at heart | J2 |
| Remembering and rejoicing in thee now | I |
| Alive where love may dream not what thou art | J2 |
| But knows that higher than hope or love art thou | I |
| Whatever heaven if heaven at all may be | E |
| Await the sacred souls of good men dead | K2 |
| There now we mourn who loved him here is he | E |
| So sweet and stern of speech the Roman said | K2 |
| Erect in grief in trust erect and gave | L2 |
| His deathless dead a deathless life even here | M2 |
| Where day bears down on day as wave on wave | L2 |
| And not man's smile fades faster than his tear | N2 |
| Albeit this gift be given not me to give | C |
| Nor power be mine to break time's silent spell | A |
| Not less shall love that dies not while I live | B |
| Bid thee beloved in life and death farewell | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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