Memorat Memoria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEE FFGHIIJJBB| Come you living or dead to me out of the silt of the Past | A |
| With the sweet of the piteous first and the shame of the shameful last | A |
| Come with your dear and dreadful face through the passes of Sleep | B |
| The terrible mask and the face it masked the face you did not keep | B |
| You are neither two nor one I would you were one or two | C |
| For your awful self is embalmed in the fragrant self I knew | C |
| And Above may ken and Beneath may ken what I mean by these words of whirl | D |
| But by my sleep that sleepeth not O Shadow of a Girl | D |
| Nought here but I and my dreams shall know the secret of this thing | E |
| For ever the songs I sing are sad with the songs I never sing | E |
| Sad are sung songs but how more sad the songs we dare not sing | E |
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| Ah the ill that we do in tenderness and the hateful horror of love | F |
| It has sent more souls to the unslaked Pit than it ever will draw above | F |
| I damned you girl with my pity who had better by far been thwart | G |
| And drave you hard on the track to hell because I was gentle of heart | H |
| I shall have no comfort now in scent no ease in dew for this | I |
| I shall be afraid of daffodils and rose buds are amiss | I |
| You have made a thing of innocence as shameful as a sin | J |
| I shall never feel a girl's soft arms without horror of the skin | J |
| My child what was it that I sowed that I so ill should reap | B |
| You have done this to me And I what I to you It lies with Sleep | B |
Francis Thompson
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