The Unfinished Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEE FGFGHHIJKL MNMNOOPPQR STSUVVWWXX| TAKE it reader idly passing | A |
| This like other idle lines | B |
| Take it critic great at classing | A |
| Subtle genius and its signs | B |
| But O reader be thou dumb | C |
| Critic let no sharp wit come | C |
| For the hand that wrote and blurred | D |
| Will not write another word | D |
| And the soul you scorn or prize | E |
| Now than angels is more wise | E |
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| Take it heart of man or woman | F |
| This unfinished broken strain | G |
| Whether it be poor or common | F |
| Or the noblest work of brain | G |
| Let that good heart only sit | H |
| Now in judgment over it | H |
| Tenderly as we would read | I |
| Any one of any creed | J |
| Any churchyard passing by | K |
| 'Sacred to the Memory | L |
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| Wholly sacred even as lingers | M |
| Final word or last look cast | N |
| Or last clasp of life warm fingers | M |
| Which we knew not was the last | N |
| Or as we apart do lay | O |
| The day after funeral day | O |
| Their dear relics great and small | P |
| Who need nothing yet win all | P |
| All the best we had and have | Q |
| Buried in one silent grave | R |
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| All our highest aspirations | S |
| And our closest love of loves | T |
| Our most secret resignations | S |
| Our best work that man approves | U |
| Yet which jealously we keep | V |
| In our mute heart's deepest deep | V |
| So of this poor broken song | W |
| Let no echoes here prolong | W |
| For the singer's voice is known | X |
| In the heaven of heavens alone | X |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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