Mirrors Of Life And Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CDECEFGG FFHIGHG JKJJL MNOPMN QRSRST UVWXXW FFEYEYZZ A2B2B2C2D2A2 E2E2ADSAF2F2AS G2ELUUKEG2 H2I2H2I2H2H2I2I2 J2J2F2IF2F2F2 UUF2F2UU CCUUB2B2 K2K2UL2UL2F2F2M2M2 ARRRAYY N2O2N2O2 P2KKLP2 UUQ2Q2 EEEThe mystery of Life the mystery | A |
Of Death I see | A |
Darkly as in a glass | B |
Their shadows pass | B |
And talk with me | A |
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As the flush of a Morning Sky | C |
As a Morning Sky colorless | D |
Each yields its measure of light | E |
To a wet world or a dry | C |
Each fares through day to night | E |
With equal pace | F |
And then each one | G |
Is done | G |
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As the Sun with glory and grace | F |
In his face | F |
Benignantly hot | H |
Graciously radiant and keen | I |
Ready to rise and to run | G |
Not without spot | H |
Not even the Sun | G |
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As the Moon | J |
On the wax on the wane | K |
With night for her noon | J |
Vanishing soon | J |
To appear again | L |
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As Roses that droop | M |
Half warm half chill in the languid May | N |
And breathe out a scent | O |
Sweet and faint | P |
Till the wind gives one swoop | M |
To scatter their beauty away | N |
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As Lilies a multitude | Q |
One dipping one rising one sinking | R |
On rippling waters clear blue | S |
And pure for their drinking | R |
One new dead and one opened anew | S |
And all good | T |
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As a cankered pale Flower | U |
With death for a dower | V |
Each hour of its life half dead | W |
With death for a crown | X |
Weighing down | X |
Its head | W |
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As an Eagle half strength and half grace | F |
Most potent to face | F |
Unwinking the splendor of light | E |
Harrying the East and the West | Y |
Soaring aloft from our sight | E |
Yet one day or one night dropped to rest | Y |
On the low common earth | Z |
Of his birth | Z |
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As a Dove | A2 |
Not alone | B2 |
In a world of her own | B2 |
Full of fluttering soft noises | C2 |
And tender sweet voices | D2 |
Of love | A2 |
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As a Mouse | E2 |
Keeping house | E2 |
In the fork of a tree | A |
With nuts in a crevice | D |
And an acorn or two | S |
What cares he | A |
For blossoming boughs | F2 |
Or the song singing bevies | F2 |
Of birds in their glee | A |
Scarlet or golden or blue | S |
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As a Mole grubbing underground | G2 |
When it comes to the light | E |
It grubs its way back again | L |
Feeling no bias of fur | U |
To hamper it in its stir | U |
Scant of pleasure and pain | K |
Sinking itself out of sight | E |
Without sound | G2 |
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As Waters that drop and drop | H2 |
Weariness without end | I2 |
That drop and never stop | H2 |
Wear that nothing can mend | I2 |
Till one day they drop | H2 |
Stop | H2 |
And there's an end | I2 |
And matters mend | I2 |
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As Trees beneath whose skin | J2 |
We mark not the sap begin | J2 |
To swell and rise | F2 |
Till the whole bursts out in green | I |
We mark the falling leaves | F2 |
When the wide world grieves | F2 |
And sighs | F2 |
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As a Forest on fire | U |
Where maddened creatures desire | U |
Wet mud or wings | F2 |
Beyond all those things | F2 |
Which could assuage desire | U |
On this side the flaming fire | U |
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As Wind with a sob and sigh | C |
To which there comes no reply | C |
But a rustle and shiver | U |
From rushes of the river | U |
As Wind with a desolate moan | B2 |
Moaning on alone | B2 |
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As a Desert all sand | K2 |
Blank neither water nor land | K2 |
For solace or dwelling or culture | U |
Where the storms and the wild creatures howl | L2 |
Given over to lion and vulture | U |
To ostrich and jackal and owl | L2 |
Yet somewhere an oasis lies | F2 |
There waters arise | F2 |
To nourish one seedling of balm | M2 |
Perhaps or one palm | M2 |
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As the Sea | A |
Murmuring shifting swaying | R |
One time sunnily playing | R |
One time wrecking and slaying | R |
In whichever mood it be | A |
Worst or best | Y |
Never at rest | Y |
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As still Waters and deep | N2 |
As shallow Waters that brawl | O2 |
As rapid Waters that leap | N2 |
To their fall | O2 |
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As Music as Color as Shape | P2 |
Keys of rapture and pain | K |
Turning in vain | K |
In a lock which turns not again | L |
While breaths and moments escape | P2 |
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As Spring all bloom and desire | U |
As Summer all gift and fire | U |
As Autumn a dying glow | Q2 |
As Winter with nought to show | Q2 |
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Winter which lays its dead all out of sight | E |
All clothed in white | E |
All waiting for the long awaited light | E |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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