To Monica Thought Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGBGCCBHHIG GIBBBFF CCEEJJKLM HHEEEHNOHPAALM HPQKHHNBBHHBBLMOMMMO BBOMCROMYou O the piteous you | A |
Who all the long night through | A |
Anticipatedly | B |
Disclose yourself to me | C |
Already in the ways | D |
Beyond our human comfortable days | D |
How can you deem what Death | E |
Impitiably saith | E |
To me who listening wake | F |
For your poor sake | F |
When a grown woman dies | G |
You know we think unceasingly | B |
What things she said how sweet how wise | G |
And these do make our misery | C |
But you were you to me | C |
The dead anticipatedly | B |
You eleven years was't not or so | H |
Were just a child you know | H |
And so you never said | I |
Things sweet immeditatably and wise | G |
To interdict from closure my wet eyes | G |
But foolish things my dead my dead | I |
Little and laughable | B |
Your age that fitted well | B |
And was it such things all unmemorable | B |
Was it such things could make | F |
Me sob all night for your implacable sake | F |
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Yet as you said to me | C |
In pretty make believe of revelry | C |
So the night long said Death | E |
With his magniloquent breath | E |
And that remembered laughter | J |
Which in our daily uses followed after | J |
Was all untuned to pity and to awe | K |
'A cup of chocolate | L |
One farthing is the rate | M |
You drink it through a straw ' | - |
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How could I know how know | H |
Those laughing words when drenched with sobbing so | H |
Another voice than yours than yours he hath | E |
My dear was't worth his breath | E |
His mighty utterance yet he saith and saith | E |
This dreadful Death to his own dreadfulness | H |
Doth dreadful wrong | N |
This dreadful childish babble on his tongue | O |
That iron tongue made to speak sentences | H |
And wisdom insupportably complete | P |
Why should it only say the long night through | A |
In mimicry of you | A |
'A cup of chocolate | L |
One farthing is the rate | M |
You drink it through a straw a straw a straw ' | - |
Oh of all sentences | H |
Piercingly incomplete | P |
Why did you teach that fatal mouth to draw | Q |
Child impermissible awe | K |
From your old trivialness | H |
Why have you done me this | H |
Most unsustainable wrong | N |
And into Death's control | B |
Betrayed the secret places of my soul | B |
Teaching him that his lips | H |
Uttering their native earthquake and eclipse | H |
Could never so avail | B |
To rend from hem to hem the ultimate veil | B |
Of this most desolate | L |
Spirit and leave it stripped and desecrate | M |
Nay never so have wrung | O |
From eyes and speech weakness unmanned unmeet | M |
As when his terrible dotage to repeat | M |
Its little lesson learneth at your feet | M |
As when he sits among | O |
His sepulchres to play | B |
With broken toys your hand has cast away | B |
With derelict trinkets of the darling young | O |
Why have you taught that he might so complete | M |
His awful panoply | C |
From your cast playthings why | R |
This dreadful childish babble to his tongue | O |
Dreadful and sweet | M |
Francis Thompson
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