On The Death Of A Certain Journal[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFG HIIH JKLJ MNOM MSo die thou child of stormy dawn | A |
Thou winter flower forlorn of nurse | B |
Chilled early by the bigot's curse | B |
The pedant's frown the worldling's yawn | A |
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Fair death to fall in teeming June | C |
When every seed which drops to earth | D |
Takes root and wins a second birth | D |
From steaming shower and gleaming moon | C |
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Fall warm fall fast thou mellow rain | E |
Thou rain of God make fat the land | F |
That roots which parch in burning sand | F |
May bud to flower and fruit again | G |
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To grace perchance a fairer morn | H |
In mightier lands beyond the sea | I |
While honour falls to such as we | I |
From hearts of heroes yet unborn | H |
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Who in the light of fuller day | J |
Of purer science holier laws | K |
Bless us faint heralds of their cause | L |
Dim beacons of their glorious way | J |
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Failure While tide floods rise and boil | M |
Round cape and isle in port and cove | N |
Resistless star led from above | O |
What though our tiny wave recoil | M |
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Eversley | M |
Charles Kingsley
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