To The Beloved Dead--a Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFECG HDHDD CICII JDJDD| Beloved thou art like a tune that idle fingers | A |
| Play on a window pane | B |
| The time is there the form of music lingers | A |
| But O thou sweetest strain | B |
| Where is thy soul Thou liest i' the wind and rain | B |
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| Even as to him who plays that idle air | C |
| It seems a melody | D |
| For his own soul is full of it so my Fair | C |
| Dead thou dost live in me | D |
| And all this lonely soul is full of thee | D |
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| Thou song of songs not music as before | E |
| Unto the outward ear | F |
| My spirit sings thee inly evermore | E |
| Thy falls with tear on tear | C |
| I fail for thee thou art too sweet too dear | G |
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| Thou silent song thou ever voiceless rhyme | H |
| Is there no pulse to move thee | D |
| At windy dawn with a wild heart beating time | H |
| And falling tears above thee | D |
| O music stifled from the ears that love thee | D |
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| Oh for a strain of thee from outer air | C |
| Soul wearies soul I find | I |
| Of thee thee thee I am mournfully aware | C |
| Contained in one poor mind | I |
| Who wert in tune and time to every wind | I |
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| Poor grave poor lost beloved but I burn | J |
| For some more vast To be | D |
| As he that played that secret tune may turn | J |
| And strike it on a lyre triumphantly | D |
| I wait some future all a lyre for thee | D |
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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