The Interpreters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDEFGFG AHIHIJKJKLMLM AMIMIHNHNOPOP GQGQRFRFSHSH| I | A |
| Days dawn on us that make amends for many | B |
| Sometimes | C |
| When heaven and earth seem sweeter even than any | B |
| Man's rhymes | C |
| Light had not all been quenched in France or quelled | D |
| In Greece | E |
| Had Homer sung not or had Hugo held | D |
| His peace | E |
| Had Sappho's self not left her word thus long | F |
| For token | G |
| The sea round Lesbos yet in waves of song | F |
| Had spoken | G |
| - | |
| II | A |
| And yet these days of subtler air and finer | H |
| Delight | I |
| When lovelier looks the darkness and diviner | H |
| The light | I |
| The gift they give of all these golden hours | J |
| Whose urn | K |
| Pours forth reverberate rays or shadowing showers | J |
| In turn | K |
| Clouds beams and winds that make the live day's track | L |
| Seem living | M |
| What were they did no spirit give them back | L |
| Thanksgiving | M |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Dead air dead fire dead shapes and shadows telling | M |
| Time nought | I |
| Man gives them sense and soul by song and dwelling | M |
| In thought | I |
| In human thought their being endures their power | H |
| Abides | N |
| Else were their life a thing that each light hour | H |
| Derides | N |
| The years live work sigh smile and die with all | O |
| They cherish | P |
| The soul endures though dreams that fed it fall | O |
| And perish | P |
| - | |
| IV | - |
| In human thought have all things habitation | G |
| Our days | Q |
| Laugh lower and lighten past and find no station | G |
| That stays | Q |
| But thought and faith are mightier things than time | R |
| Can wrong | F |
| Made splendid once with speech or made sublime | R |
| By song | F |
| Remembrance though the tide of change that rolls | S |
| Wax hoary | H |
| Gives earth and heaven for song's sake and the soul's | S |
| Their glory | H |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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