At William Maclennan's Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGGF HHHCCH IIJKKJ LLMNNO PQHHHH RRNDDN HHSTT AADUUDHere where the cypress tall | A |
Shadows the stucco wall | A |
Bronze and deep | B |
Where the chrysanthemums blow | C |
And the roses blood and snow | C |
He lies asleep | B |
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Florence dreameth afar | D |
Memories of foray and war | E |
Murmur still | F |
The Certosa crowns with a cold | G |
Cloud of snow and gold | G |
The olive hill | F |
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What has he now for the streams | H |
Born sweet and deep with dreams | H |
From the cedar meres | H |
Only the Arno's flow | C |
Turbid and weary and slow | C |
With wrath and tears | H |
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What has he now for the song | I |
Of the boatmen joyous and long | I |
Where the rapids shine | J |
Only the sound of toil | K |
Where the peasants press the soil | K |
For the oil and wine | J |
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Spirit fellow in sooth | L |
With bold La Salle and Duluth | L |
And La V randrye | M |
Nothing he has but rest | N |
Deep in his cypress nest | N |
With memory | O |
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Hearts of steel and of fire | P |
Why do ye love and aspire | Q |
When follows | H |
Death all your passionate deeds | H |
Garnered with rust and with weeds | H |
In the hollows | H |
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God that hardened the steel | R |
Bid the flame leap and reel | R |
Gave us unrest | N |
We act in the dusk afar | D |
In a star beyond your star | D |
His behest | N |
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'We leave you dreams and names | H |
Still we are iron and flames | H |
Biting and bright | S |
Into some virgin world | T |
Champions we are hurled | T |
Of venture and fight ' | - |
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Here where the shadows fall | A |
From the cypress by the wall | A |
Where the roses are | D |
Here is a dream and a name | U |
There like a rose of flame | U |
Rises a star | D |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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