On The Death Of Richard Burton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCDBDDEDEEFEFFGF GGHGHHIHIIJIJJBJBCJB JJKJKKLKLLMLMMLM| Night or light is it now wherein | A |
| Sleeps shut out from the wild world's din | A |
| Wakes alive with a life more clear | B |
| One who found not on earth his kin | A |
| Sleep were sweet for awhile were dear | B |
| Surely to souls that were heartless here | C |
| Souls that faltered and flagged and fell | D |
| Soft of spirit and faint of cheer | B |
| A living soul that had strength to quell | D |
| Hope the spectre and fear the spell | D |
| Clear eyed content with a scorn sublime | E |
| And a faith superb can it fare not well | D |
| Life the shadow of wide winged time | E |
| Cast from the wings that change as they climb | E |
| Life may vanish in death and seem | F |
| Less than the promise of last year's prime | E |
| But not for us is the past a dream | F |
| Wherefrom as light from a clouded stream | F |
| Faith fades and shivers and ebbs away | G |
| Faint as the moon if the sundawn gleam | F |
| Faith whose eyes in the low last ray | G |
| Watch the fire that renews the day | G |
| Faith which lives in the living past | H |
| Rock rooted swerves not as weeds that sway | G |
| As trees that stand in the storm wind fast | H |
| She stands unsmitten of death's keen blast | H |
| With strong remembrance of sunbright spring | I |
| Alive at heart to the lifeless last | H |
| Night she knows may in no wise cling | I |
| To a soul that sinks not and droops not wing | I |
| A sun that sets not in death's false night | J |
| Whose kingdom finds him not thrall but king | I |
| Souls there are that for soul's affright | J |
| Bow down and cower in the sun's glad sight | J |
| Clothed round with faith that is one with fear | B |
| And dark with doubt of the live world's light | J |
| But him we hailed from afar or near | B |
| As boldest born of the bravest here | C |
| And loved as brightest of souls that eyed | J |
| Life time and death with unchangeful cheer | B |
| A wider soul than the world was wide | J |
| Whose praise made love of him one with pride | J |
| What part has death or has time in him | K |
| Who rode life's lists as a god might ride | J |
| While England sees not her old praise dim | K |
| While still her stars through the world's night swim | K |
| A fame outshining her Raleigh's fame | L |
| A light that lightens her loud sea's rim | K |
| Shall shine and sound as her sons proclaim | L |
| The pride that kindles at Burton's name | L |
| And joy shall exalt their pride to be | M |
| The same in birth if in soul the same | L |
| But we that yearn for a friend's face we | M |
| Who lack the light that on earth was he | M |
| Mourn though the light be a quenchless flame | L |
| That shines as dawn on a tideless sea | M |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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