Quieta Ne Movete Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFF GHGHIIJJ KLKLJJMN OPOPQQRR| IF one should wake one's frozen faith | A |
| In sunlight of her radiant eyes | B |
| Bid it forget its dream of death | C |
| In this new dream of Paradise | D |
| Bid it forget the long slow pain | E |
| The agony when all in vain | E |
| It fought for life and how one swore | F |
| Once cold it should not waken more | F |
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| If hope one buried long ago | G |
| Should thrill beneath those smiles of hers | H |
| Should in one's sere life stir and grow | G |
| As in brown woods the young spring stirs | H |
| If breaking icy bonds of grief | I |
| One's soul should start to bud and leaf | I |
| It might forget in that springtide | J |
| How last year's leaves fell off and died | J |
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| If from warm faith and hope set high | K |
| A lovely living child was born | L |
| With lips more pure than starlit sky | K |
| And eyes as clear as summer morn | L |
| Child love might grow till one forgot | J |
| Old love that was and now is not | J |
| Forgot that far off time of tears | M |
| And all these desolated years | N |
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| And yet of faith hope love one knows | O |
| So well what end the years will make | P |
| If one should dig beneath Time's snows | O |
| And wake them now for her sweet sake | P |
| New life may mean new joy but then | Q |
| What lives again may die again | Q |
| And to that second death there may | R |
| Be no new resurrection day | R |
Edith Nesbit
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