Grief's Harmonics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBACBDDCECDCCCFEGH C| At evening when the lank and rigid trees | A |
| To the mere forms of their sweet day selves drying | B |
| On heaven's blank leaf seem pressed and flatten ed | C |
| Or rather to my sombre thoughts replying | B |
| Of plumes funereal the thin effigies | A |
| That hour when all old dead things seem most dead | C |
| And their death instant most and most undying | B |
| That the flesh aches at them there stirred in me | D |
| The babe of an unborn calamity | D |
| Ere its due time to be deliver ed | C |
| Dead sorrow and sorrow unborn so blent their pain | E |
| That which more present was were hardly said | C |
| But both more NOW than any Now can be | D |
| My soul like sackcloth did her body rend | C |
| And thus with Heaven contend | C |
| 'Let pass the chalice of this coming dread | C |
| Or that fore drained O bid me not re drain ' | F |
| So have I asked who know my asking vain | E |
| Woe against woe in antiphon set over | G |
| That grief's soul transmigrates and lives again | H |
| And in new pang old pang's incarnated | C |
Francis Thompson
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