In Memory Of Walter Savage Landor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OCOC KPJP QEQE RSRS TUTU VWVWBack to the flower town side by side | A |
The bright months bring | B |
New born the bridegroom and the bride | A |
Freedom and spring | B |
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The sweet land laughs from sea to sea | C |
Filled full of sun | D |
All things come back to her being free | C |
All things but one | D |
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In many a tender wheaten plot | E |
Flowers that were dead | F |
Live and old suns revive but not | E |
That holier head | F |
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By this white wandering waste of sea | C |
Far north I hear | G |
One face shall never turn to me | C |
As once this year | H |
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Shall never smile and turn and rest | I |
On mine as there | J |
Nor one most sacred hand be prest | I |
Upon my hair | J |
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I came as one whose thoughts half linger | K |
Half run before | L |
The youngest to the oldest singer | K |
That England bore | L |
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I found him whom I shall not find | M |
Till all grief end | N |
In holiest age our mightiest mind | M |
Father and friend | N |
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But thou if anything endure | O |
If hope there be | C |
O spirit that man's life left pure | O |
Man's death set free | C |
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Not with disdain of days that were | K |
Look earthward now | P |
Let dreams revive the reverend hair | J |
The imperial brow | P |
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Come back in sleep for in the life | Q |
Where thou art not | E |
We find none like thee Time and strife | Q |
And the world's lot | E |
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Move thee no more but love at least | R |
And reverent heart | S |
May move thee royal and released | R |
Soul as thou art | S |
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And thou his Florence to thy trust | T |
Receive and keep | U |
Keep safe his dedicated dust | T |
His sacred sleep | U |
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So shall thy lovers come from far | V |
Mix with thy name | W |
As morning star with evening star | V |
His faultless fame | W |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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