Louis Blanc - Three Sonnets To His Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBCDECDE ACFFCCGFCHIIHJJ AKLLKKLLKCAACCA| I | A |
| The stainless soul that smiled through glorious eyes | B |
| The bright grave brow whereon dark fortune's blast | C |
| Might blow but might not bend it nor o'ercast | C |
| Save for one fierce fleet hour of shame the skies | B |
| Thrilled with warm dreams of worthier days to rise | B |
| And end the whole world's winter here at last | C |
| If death be death have passed into the past | C |
| If death be life live though their semblance dies | B |
| Hope and high faith inviolate of distrust | C |
| Shone strong as life inviolate of the grave | D |
| Through each bright word and lineament serene | E |
| Most loving righteousness and love most just | C |
| Crowned as day crowns the dawn enkindled wave | D |
| With visible aureole thine unfaltering mien | E |
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| II | A |
| Strong time and fire swift change with lightnings clad | C |
| And shod with thunders of reverberate years | F |
| Have filled with light and sound of hopes and fears | F |
| The space of many a season since I had | C |
| Grace of good hap to make my spirit glad | C |
| Once communing with thine and memory hears | G |
| The bright voice yet that then rejoiced mine ears | F |
| Sees yet the light of eyes that spake and bade | C |
| Fear not but hope though then time's heart were weak | H |
| And heaven by hell shade stricken and the range | I |
| Of high born hope made questionable and strange | I |
| As twilight trembling till the sunlight speak | H |
| Thou sawest the sunrise and the storm in one | J |
| Break seest thou now the storm compelling sun | J |
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| III | A |
| Surely thou seest O spirit of light and fire | K |
| Surely thou canst not choose O soul but see | L |
| The days whose dayspring was beheld of thee | L |
| Ere eyes less pure might have their hope's desire | K |
| Beholding life in heaven again respire | K |
| Where men saw nought that was or was to be | L |
| Save only death imperial Thou and he | L |
| Who has the heart of all men's hearts for lyre | K |
| Ye twain being great of spirit as time is great | C |
| And sure of sight as truth's own heavenward eye | A |
| Beheld the forms of forces passing by | A |
| And certitude of equal balanced fate | C |
| Whose breath forefelt makes darkness palpitate | C |
| And knew that light should live and darkness die | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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