Two Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGFG A HIJ HIK LMLMHNHN| I | A |
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| Saints have adored the lofty soul of you | B |
| Poets have whitened at your high renown | C |
| We stand among the many millions who | B |
| Do hourly wait to pass your pathway down | C |
| You so familiar once were strange we tried | D |
| To live as of your presence unaware | E |
| But now in every road on every side | D |
| We see your straight and steadfast signpost there | E |
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| I think it like that signpost in my land | F |
| Hoary and tall which pointed me to go | G |
| Upward into the hills on the right hand | F |
| Where the mists swim and the winds shriek and blow | G |
| A homeless land and friendless but a land | F |
| I did not know and that I wished to know | G |
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| II | A |
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| Such such is Death no triumph no defeat | H |
| Only an empty pail a slate rubbed clean | I |
| A merciful putting away of what has been | J |
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| And this we know Death is not Life effete | H |
| Life crushed the broken pail We who have seen | I |
| So marvellous things know well the end not yet | K |
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| Victor and vanquished are a one in death | L |
| Coward and brave friend foe Ghosts do not say | M |
| Come what was your record when you drew breath | L |
| But a big blot has hid each yesterday | M |
| So poor so manifestly incomplete | H |
| And your bright Promise withered long and sped | N |
| Is touched stirs rises opens and grows sweet | H |
| And blossoms and is you when you are dead | N |
Charles Hamilton Sorley
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