Monodies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGHIJKLMNOPQRS TGUVWXOYHZA2B2YUC2D2 E2F2G2H2I2J2K2AL2M2N 2O2GUP2Q2OR2S2IT2U2V 2W2X2Y2Z2MA3AB3 AC3D3B2E3B2Y2F3G3T2C 3GHCH3BVI3URJ3UK3L3M 3E2N3UO3TN3GP3Q3R3US 3T3U3V3W3X3BAYUW3P2U A3Y3Z3A4W3B4C4D4E4W3 MYW3W3R3BW3 YF4W3W3G4A3P2H4I4W3W 3UPJ4W3K4YF3W W3L4G2M4HW3RF4W3C3N3 AX2W3X2M4X2W3X2EW3EW 3N4P2N4FO4O4P4I | A |
I stand in thought beside my father s grave | B |
The grave of one who in his old age died | C |
Too late perhaps since he endured so much | D |
Of corporal anguish sweating bloody sweat | E |
But not an hour too soon no not an hour | F |
Even if through all his many years he ne er | F |
Had known another ailment than decay | G |
Or felt one bodily pang For his bruised heart | H |
And wounded goodwill wounded through its once | I |
Samsonian vigour and too credulous trust | J |
In that great Delilah the harlot world | K |
Had done with fortune nay his very tastes | L |
Even the lowliest had by blast on blast | M |
Of sorrow and mischance been blown like leaves | N |
Deciduous when the year is withering out | O |
From every living hold on what we here | P |
Call nature he but followed in their wake | Q |
Nor was there in the lives of those he loved | R |
Even had he been susceptible of cheer | S |
Enough of fortune to warm into peace | T |
A little longer ere he passed away | G |
The remnant of his chilled humanity | U |
Wet are mine eyes and my heart aches to think | V |
How much of evil ridged his course of time | W |
And earthly pilgrimage Alas Enough | X |
However bravely struggled with throughout | O |
Or passively accepted to have slain | Y |
In almost any other human heart | H |
All comforting reliance on the sure | Z |
Though still reserved supremecy of good | A2 |
For few are they who on this stormy ball | B2 |
Can live a long life full of loss and pain | Y |
And yet through doubts dull clouds uplooking see | U |
In that wide dome which roofs the apparent whole | C2 |
Without or seam or flaw a visible type | D2 |
Of heaven s intact infinitude of love | E2 |
Yet died he a believer in the truth | F2 |
And fatherhood of the Holy One a God | G2 |
Help mighty nor unmindful of mankind | H2 |
Yea in the heavenward reaching light of faith | I2 |
His soul went forth as in a sunbeam s track | J2 |
Some close caged bird from a long bondage freed | K2 |
Goes winging up up through the open sky | A |
Rejoicing in the widening glow that paths | L2 |
The final victory of its native wings | M2 |
And whether all was triumph as it went | N2 |
Piercing eternity or whether clouds | O2 |
Of penal terror gathered in the way | G |
Not less must death the great inductor be | U |
To much that far transcends time s highest lore | P2 |
Must be at worst a grimly grateful thing | Q2 |
If only through deliverance from doubt | O |
The clinging curse of mortals In the flesh | R2 |
What own we but the present with its scant | S2 |
Assurance of a secular permanence | I |
Even in the fact of being While all that lies | T2 |
Beyond it lies or in the casual drifts | U2 |
Of embryon needs that lurking dark project | V2 |
To morrow s world or worse at the wild will | W2 |
Of a demoniac fortune But the dead | X2 |
Have this immunity at least a lot | Y2 |
Final and fixed as evermore within | Z2 |
The gates of the Eternal For the past | M |
Is wholly God s and therefore like himself | A3 |
Knows no reverse no change but lies for eye | A |
Stretched in the sabbath of its vast repose | B3 |
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II | A |
My dear dear Charley Can it be that thou | C3 |
Art gone from us for ever Whilst I sit | D3 |
Amid these forest shadows that now fall | B2 |
In sombre masses mixed with sunny gleams | E3 |
Upon thy early grave and think of all | B2 |
The household love that was our mutual lot | Y2 |
So late and during all thy little life | F3 |
Thy thirteen years of sonhood it is hard | G3 |
So dreamlike wild it seems to realize | T2 |
The shuddering certainty that thou art now | C3 |
In the eternal world and reft away | G |
In one dread moment from thy father s heart | H |
Thy young intelligence from his lonely side | C |
So reft for ever leaving him alas | H3 |
Thus sitting here forlorn here by thy grave | B |
New made and bare as upon life s bleak brink | V |
To stare out deathward through his blinding tears | I3 |
And they thy brothers and thy sisters Charley | U |
They miss their vanished playmate so beloved | R |
And so endeared by years of happy help | J3 |
And many a pleasant old faced memory | U |
I see them often when thy name is breathed | K3 |
Look away askingly out into space | L3 |
As if they thought thy spirit might be there | M3 |
Still yearning towards them with a saddened love | E2 |
Like that in their own hearts And an To him | N3 |
Who at thy side when death came swift upon thee | U |
Sent out through the wild forest such a shriek | O3 |
As never until then might break the peace | T |
That nestles in its lairs ah When to him | N3 |
Shall the drear haggard memory of that day | G |
Be other than a horror such as clothed | P3 |
In terrible mystery for ever keeps | Q3 |
Stalking beside us in some ghastly dream | R3 |
But most I pity her who bore thee Charley | U |
Whose mother bosom was at once the next | S3 |
And fountain of thy infant life and who | T3 |
Through all thy after years was ever wont | U3 |
To shield thee with her love and doat the while | V3 |
Though with some fear upon those spirited ways | W3 |
And nascent self reliance that seemed | X3 |
The promise of a manhood strong and brave | B |
Loving thee more perhaps than ever I | A |
If that be possible and to whom tis plain | Y |
All things are changed now through the loss of thee | U |
All home consuetudes and household wonts | W3 |
And motherly providences which before | P2 |
Did fill the passing hour so pleasantly | U |
Changed now and irksome as if life itself | A3 |
With all its motives suddenly had grown | Y3 |
Delusive as a dream Then will she come | Z3 |
And gaze out hitherward and up to heaven | A4 |
With eyes so asking that they seem to say | W3 |
Where is my darling and why was he torn | B4 |
Away so rudely from a love like mine | C4 |
In vain In vain Art thou so vacant then | D4 |
O thou wide heaven That no pitying star | E4 |
May seem to breathe down through the forest trees | W3 |
With mystical assurance that the past | M |
Is living and not dead That no refrain | Y |
Of lingering spirit sympathy may for once | W3 |
Intone the melancholy wind as thus | W3 |
Its waves surge overhead with what might seem | R3 |
Some imtimation from beyond the grave | B |
That love can never cease | W3 |
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We ask in vain | Y |
Voiceless is that dread gulf twixt life and death | F4 |
And is it wholly well it should be so | W3 |
That even love though in the morning glow | W3 |
Of human faith once visioned to have moved | G4 |
The inexorable profound of hell itself | A3 |
May stare tear blinded from its hither shore | P2 |
And shriek to it in vain That from beyond | H4 |
No quieting whisper may across it breathe | I4 |
Of peace from the immortals Not a glimpse | W3 |
Of that Elysian beauty which enrobes | W3 |
As with the garment of the Deity | U |
Its heavenward coast e er reach us While we here | P |
Sit groaning full of wild misgivings full | J4 |
Of mournful memories and embittered wonts | W3 |
And so engloomed so overcast by dark | K4 |
Disquieting doubts that we are often fain | Y |
To leap from them at once though out of life | F3 |
Madly desirous to have done with time | W |
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Ah Whither has emotion wild with loss | W3 |
Carried me doubtward Broken as I am | L4 |
Let me strive rather to believe that God | G2 |
Has ordered nothing otherwise than well | M4 |
And thereby strengthened let me teach my heart | H |
That he who now in this bleak world to us | W3 |
Is lost for ever the bright boy we loved | R |
The Charley of our memory whose death | F4 |
Came down amongst us in a guise so fierce | W3 |
Was taken yet in mercy and is now | C3 |
At home with Him | N3 |
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III | A |
Since thou art dead since thou art dead | X2 |
Though to look up is still to see | W3 |
The blue heaven bending o er my head | X2 |
So big with good showered bounteously | M4 |
Though scenes of love he round me spread | X2 |
And o er the hills as once with thee | W3 |
My brother still with venturous tread | X2 |
I wander where broad rivers fret | E |
And lighten onward to the sea | W3 |
As erst unchanged unchanging yet | E |
How different is the world to me | W3 |
The light a with a living robe | N4 |
Doth clothe all nature as of yore | P2 |
The sun with his great golden globe | N4 |
Doth crown yon hill when night is o er | F |
The moon and stars o erwatch the earth | O4 |
As I have seen them from my birth | O4 |
But O Thou light | P4 |
Charles Harpur
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