Stanzas On The Death Of Lord Byron Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBDD EFGFFHFHH IJIJJKJKK LALAAMCNM| He was and is not Graecia's trembling shore | A |
| Sighing through all her palmy groves shall tell | B |
| That Harold's pilgrimage at last is o'er | C |
| Mute the impassioned tongue and tuneful shell | B |
| That erst was wont in noblest strains to swell | B |
| Hush'd the proud shouts that rode Aegaea's wave | D |
| For lo the great Deliv'rer breathes farewell | B |
| Gives to the world his mem'ry and a grave | D |
| Expiring in the land he only lived to save | D |
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| Mourn Hellas mourn and o'er thy widow'd brow | E |
| For aye the cypress wreath of sorrow twine | F |
| And in thy new form'd beauty desolate throw | G |
| The fresh cull'd flowers on his sepulchral shrine | F |
| Yes let that heart whose fervour was all thine | F |
| In consecrated urn lamented be | H |
| That generous heart where genius thrill'd divine | F |
| Hath spent its last most glorious throb for thee | H |
| Then sank amid the storm that made thy children free | H |
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| Britannia's Poet Graecia's hero sleeps | I |
| And Freedom bending o'er the breathless clay | J |
| Lifts up her voice and in her anguish weeps | I |
| For us a night hath clouded o'er our day | J |
| And hush'd the lips that breath'd our fairest lay | J |
| Alas and must the British lyre resound | K |
| A requiem while the spirit wings away | J |
| Of him who on its strings such music found | K |
| And taught its startling chords to give so sweet a sound | K |
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| The theme grows sadder but my soul shall find | L |
| A language in those tears No more no more | A |
| Soon 'midst the shriekings of the tossing wind | L |
| The 'dark blue depths' he sang of shall have bore | A |
| Our all of Byron to his native shore | A |
| His grave is thick with voices to the ear | M |
| Murm'ring an awful tale of greatness o'er | C |
| But Memory strives with Death and lingering near | N |
| Shall consecrate the dust of Harold's lonely bier | M |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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