Obsequial Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDECDE FGHFGH IJKIJK LMGNMG ABAAB OPOOQ| Surely you've trodden straight | A |
| To the very door | B |
| Surely you took your fate | A |
| Faultlessly Now it's too late | A |
| To say more | B |
| - | |
| It is evident you were right | C |
| That man has a course to go | D |
| A voyage to sail beyond the charted seas | E |
| You have passed from out of sight | C |
| And my questions blow | D |
| Back from the straight horizon that ends all one sees | E |
| - | |
| Now like a vessel in port | F |
| You unlade your riches unto death | G |
| And glad are the eager dead to receive you there | H |
| Let the dead sort | F |
| Your cargo out breath from breath | G |
| Let them disencumber your bounty let them all share | H |
| - | |
| I imagine dead hands are brighter | I |
| Their fingers in sunset shine | J |
| With jewels of passion once broken through you as a prism | K |
| Breaks light into jewels and dead breasts whiter | I |
| For your wrath and yes I opine | J |
| They anoint their brows with your blood as a perfect chrism | K |
| - | |
| On your body the beaten anvil | L |
| Was hammered out | M |
| That moon like sword the ascendant dead unsheathe | G |
| Against us sword that no man will | N |
| Put to rout | M |
| Sword that severs the question from us who breathe | G |
| - | |
| Surely you've trodden straight | A |
| To the very door | B |
| You have surely achieved your fate | A |
| And the perfect dead are elate | A |
| To have won once more | B |
| - | |
| Now to the dead you are giving | O |
| Your last allegiance | P |
| But what of us who are living | O |
| And fearful yet of believing | O |
| In your pitiless legions | Q |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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