Threnody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCCDDD AEEEFFFGGG AHHHFFFIIJ

IA
Life sublime and serene when time had power upon it and ruled its breathB
Changed it bade it be glad or sad and hear what change in the world's ear saithB
Shines more fair in the starrier air whose glory lightens the dusk of deathB
Suns that sink on the wan sea's brink and moons that kindle and flame and fadeC
Leave more clear for the darkness here the stars that set not and see not shadeC
Rise and rise on the lowlier skies by rule of sunlight and moonlight swayedC
So when night for his eyes grew bright his proud head pillowed on Shakespeare's breastD
Hand in hand with him soon to stand where shine the glories that death loves bestD
Passed the light of his face from sight and sank sublimely to radiant restD
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IIA
Far above us and all our love beyond all reach of its voiceless praiseE
Shines for ever the name that never shall feel the shade of the changeful daysE
Fall and chill the delight that still sees winter's light on it shine like May'sE
Strong as death is the dark day's breath whose blast has withered the life we seeF
Here where light is the child of night and less than visions or dreams are weF
Strong as death but a word a breath a dream is stronger than death can beF
Strong as truth and superb in youth eternal fair as the sundawn's flameG
Seen when May on her first born day bids earth exult in her radiant nameG
Lives clothed round with its praise and crowned with love that dies not his love lit fameG
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IIIA
Fairer far than the morning star and sweet for us as the songs that rangH
Loud through heaven from the choral Seven when all the stars of the morning sangH
Shines the song that we loved so long since first such love in us flamed and sprangH
England glows as a sunlit rose from mead to mountain from sea to seaF
Bright with love and with pride above all taint of sorrow that needs must beF
Needs must live for an hour and give its rainbow's glory to lawn and leaF
Not through tears shall the new born years behold him crowned with applause of menI
Pass at last from a lustrous past to life that lightens beyond their kenI
Glad and dead and from earthward led to sunward guided of ImogenJ

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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