The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries: Of Birth, 1864: Of Death, 1916 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HBHB IJIJ| TO SHAKESPEARE | A |
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| Longer than thine than thine | B |
| Is now my time of life and thus thy years | C |
| Seem to be clasped and harboured within mine | B |
| O how ignoble this my clasp appears | C |
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| Thy unprophetic birth | D |
| Thy darkling death living I might have seen | E |
| That cradle marked those labours closed that earth | D |
| O first O last O infinite between | E |
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| Now that my life has shared | F |
| Thy dedicated date O mortal twice | G |
| To what all vain embrace shall be compared | F |
| My lean enclosure of thy paradise | G |
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| To ignorant arms that fold | H |
| A poet to a foolish breast The Line | B |
| That is not with the world within its hold | H |
| So days with days my days encompass thine | B |
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| Child Stripling Man the sod | I |
| Might I talk little language to thee pore | J |
| On thy last silence O thou city of God | I |
| My waste lies after thee and lies before | J |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
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