Memorial Verses On The Death Of William Bell Scott Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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A life more bright than the sun's face bowedA
Through stress of season and coil of cloudA
Sets and the sorrow that casts out fearB
Scarce deems him dead in his chill still shroudA
Dead on the breast of the dying yearB
Poet and painter and friend thrice dearB
For love of the suns long set for loveC
Of song that sets not with sunset hereD
For love of the fervent heart aboveC
Their sense who saw not the swift light moveE
That filled with sense of the loud sun's lyreF
The thoughts that passion was fain to proveE
In fervent labour of high desireG
And faith that leapt from its own quenched pyreG
Alive and strong as the sun and caughtH
From darkness light and from twilight fireG
Passion deep as the depths unsoughtH
Whence faith's own hope may redeem us noughtH
Filled full with ardour of pain sublimeI
His mourning song and his mounting thoughtH
Elate with sense of a sterner timeI
His hand's flight clomb as a bird's might climbI
Calvary dark in the darkling airJ
That shrank for fear of the crowning crimeI
Three crosses rose on the hillside bareJ
Shown scarce by grace of the lightning's glareJ
That clove the veil of the temple throughK
And smote the priests on the threshold thereJ
The soul that saw it the hand that drewK
Whence light as thought's or as faith's glance flewK
And stung to life the sepulchral pastH
And bade the stars of it burn anewK
Held no less than the dead world fastH
The light live shadows about them castH
The likeness living of dawn and nightH
The days that pass and the dreams that lastH
Thought clothed round with sorrow as lightH
Dark as a cloud that the moon turns brightH
Moved as a wind on the striving seaL
That yearns and quickens and flags in flightH
Through forms of colour and song that heL
Who fain would have set its wide wings freeL
Cast round it clothing or chaining hopeM
With lights that last not and shades that fleeL
Scarce in song could his soul find scopeM
Scarce the strength of his hand might opeM
Art's inmost gate of her sovereign shrineN
To cope with heaven as a man may copeM
But high as the hope of a man may shineN
The faith the fervour the life divineN
That thrills our life and transfigures roseO
And shone resurgent a sunbright signN
Through shapes whereunder the strong soul glowsO
And fills them full as a sunlit roseO
With sense and fervour of life whose lightH
The fool's eye knows not the man's eye knowsO
None that can read or divine arightH
The scriptures writ of the soul may slightH
The strife of a strenuous soul to showP
More than the craft of the hand may writeH
None may slight it and none may knowP
How high the flames that aspire and glowP
From heart and spirit and soul may climbI
And triumph higher than the souls lie lowP
Whose hearing hears not the livelong rhymeI
Whose eyesight sees not the light sublimeI
That shines that sounds that ascends and livesQ
Unquenched of change unobscured of timeI
A long life's length as a man's life givesQ
Space for the spirit that soars and strivesR
To strive and soar has the soul shone throughK
That heeds not whither the world's wind drivesR
Now that the days and the ways it knewK
Are strange are dead as the dawn's grey dewK
At high midnoon of the mounting dayH
That mocks the might of the dawn it slewK
Yet haply may not and haply mayH
No sense abide of the dead sun's rayH
Wherein the soul that outsoars us nowS
Rejoiced with ours in its radiant swayH
Hope may hover and doubt may bowS
Dreaming Haply they dream not howS
Not life but death may indeed be deadH
When silence darkens the dead man's browS
Hope whose name is remembrance fedH
With love that lightens from seasons fledH
Dreams and craves not indeed to knowP
That death and life are as souls that wedH
But change that falls on the heart like snowP
Can chill not memory nor hope that showP
The soul the spirit the heart and headH
Alive above us who strive belowP

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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