Lines On The Death Of Edward John Trelawny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAAC DEEDDE DFFDDF FDDFFD GHHGGH IJJIIJ DFFDDF| Last high star of the years whose thunder | A |
| Still men's listening remembrance hears | B |
| Last light left of our fathers' years | C |
| Watched with honour and hailed with wonder | A |
| Thee too then have the years borne under | A |
| Thou too then hast regained thy peers | C |
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| Wings that warred with the winds of morning | D |
| Storm winds rocking the red great dawn | E |
| Close at last and a film is drawn | E |
| Over the eyes of the storm bird scorning | D |
| Now no longer the loud wind's warning | D |
| Waves that threaten or waves that fawn | E |
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| Peers were none of thee left us living | D |
| Peers of theirs we shall see no more | F |
| Eight years over the full fourscore | F |
| Knew thee now shalt thou sleep forgiving | D |
| All griefs past of the wild world's giving | D |
| Moored at last on the stormless shore | F |
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| Worldwide liberty's lifelong lover | F |
| Lover no less of the strength of song | D |
| Sea king swordsman hater of wrong | D |
| Over thy dust that the dust shall cover | F |
| Comes my song as a bird to hover | F |
| Borne of its will as of wings along | D |
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| Cherished of thee were this brief song's brothers | G |
| Now that follows them cherishing thee | H |
| Over the tides and the tideless sea | H |
| Soft as a smile of the earth our mother's | G |
| Flies it faster than all those others | G |
| First of the troop at thy tomb to be | H |
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| Memories of Greece and the mountain's hollow | I |
| Guarded alone of thy loyal sword | J |
| Hold thy name for our hearts in ward | J |
| Yet more fain are our hearts to follow | I |
| One way now with the southward swallow | I |
| Back to the grave of the man their lord | J |
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| Heart of hearts art thou moved not hearing | D |
| Surely if hearts of the dead may hear | F |
| Whose true heart it is now draws near | F |
| Surely the sense of it thrills thee cheering | D |
| Darkness and death with the news now nearing | D |
| Shelley Trelawny rejoins thee here | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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