A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEFDEF GBHGBH BIBBJB| Never until the mankind making | A |
| Bird beast and flower | B |
| Fathering and all humbling darkness | C |
| Tells with silence the last light breaking | A |
| And the still hour | B |
| Is come of the sea tumbling in harness | C |
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| And I must enter again the round | D |
| Zion of the water bead | E |
| And the synagogue of the ear of corn | F |
| Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound | D |
| Or sow my salt seed | E |
| In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn | F |
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| The majesty and burning of the child's death | G |
| I shall not murder | B |
| The mankind of her going with a grave truth | H |
| Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath | G |
| With any further | B |
| Elegy of innocence and youth | H |
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| Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter | B |
| Robed in the long friends | I |
| The grains beyond age the dark veins of her mother | B |
| Secret by the unmourning water | B |
| Of the riding Thames | J |
| After the first death there is no other | B |
Dylan Thomas
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