Threnody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCCDDD AEEEFFFGGG AHHHFFFIIJI | A |
Life sublime and serene when time had power upon it and ruled its breath | B |
Changed it bade it be glad or sad and hear what change in the world's ear saith | B |
Shines more fair in the starrier air whose glory lightens the dusk of death | B |
Suns that sink on the wan sea's brink and moons that kindle and flame and fade | C |
Leave more clear for the darkness here the stars that set not and see not shade | C |
Rise and rise on the lowlier skies by rule of sunlight and moonlight swayed | C |
So when night for his eyes grew bright his proud head pillowed on Shakespeare's breast | D |
Hand in hand with him soon to stand where shine the glories that death loves best | D |
Passed the light of his face from sight and sank sublimely to radiant rest | D |
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II | A |
Far above us and all our love beyond all reach of its voiceless praise | E |
Shines for ever the name that never shall feel the shade of the changeful days | E |
Fall and chill the delight that still sees winter's light on it shine like May's | E |
Strong as death is the dark day's breath whose blast has withered the life we see | F |
Here where light is the child of night and less than visions or dreams are we | F |
Strong as death but a word a breath a dream is stronger than death can be | F |
Strong as truth and superb in youth eternal fair as the sundawn's flame | G |
Seen when May on her first born day bids earth exult in her radiant name | G |
Lives clothed round with its praise and crowned with love that dies not his love lit fame | G |
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III | A |
Fairer far than the morning star and sweet for us as the songs that rang | H |
Loud through heaven from the choral Seven when all the stars of the morning sang | H |
Shines the song that we loved so long since first such love in us flamed and sprang | H |
England glows as a sunlit rose from mead to mountain from sea to sea | F |
Bright with love and with pride above all taint of sorrow that needs must be | F |
Needs must live for an hour and give its rainbow's glory to lawn and lea | F |
Not through tears shall the new born years behold him crowned with applause of men | I |
Pass at last from a lustrous past to life that lightens beyond their ken | I |
Glad and dead and from earthward led to sunward guided of Imogen | J |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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