To Monica Thought Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGBGCCBHHIG GIBBBFF CCEEJJKLM HHEEEHNOHPAALM HPQKHHNBBHHBBLMOMMMO BBOMCROM

You O the piteous youA
Who all the long night throughA
AnticipatedlyB
Disclose yourself to meC
Already in the waysD
Beyond our human comfortable daysD
How can you deem what DeathE
Impitiably saithE
To me who listening wakeF
For your poor sakeF
When a grown woman diesG
You know we think unceasinglyB
What things she said how sweet how wiseG
And these do make our miseryC
But you were you to meC
The dead anticipatedlyB
You eleven years was't not or soH
Were just a child you knowH
And so you never saidI
Things sweet immeditatably and wiseG
To interdict from closure my wet eyesG
But foolish things my dead my deadI
Little and laughableB
Your age that fitted wellB
And was it such things all unmemorableB
Was it such things could makeF
Me sob all night for your implacable sakeF
-
Yet as you said to meC
In pretty make believe of revelryC
So the night long said DeathE
With his magniloquent breathE
And that remembered laughterJ
Which in our daily uses followed afterJ
Was all untuned to pity and to aweK
'A cup of chocolateL
One farthing is the rateM
You drink it through a straw '-
-
How could I know how knowH
Those laughing words when drenched with sobbing soH
Another voice than yours than yours he hathE
My dear was't worth his breathE
His mighty utterance yet he saith and saithE
This dreadful Death to his own dreadfulnessH
Doth dreadful wrongN
This dreadful childish babble on his tongueO
That iron tongue made to speak sentencesH
And wisdom insupportably completeP
Why should it only say the long night throughA
In mimicry of youA
'A cup of chocolateL
One farthing is the rateM
You drink it through a straw a straw a straw '-
Oh of all sentencesH
Piercingly incompleteP
Why did you teach that fatal mouth to drawQ
Child impermissible aweK
From your old trivialnessH
Why have you done me thisH
Most unsustainable wrongN
And into Death's controlB
Betrayed the secret places of my soulB
Teaching him that his lipsH
Uttering their native earthquake and eclipseH
Could never so availB
To rend from hem to hem the ultimate veilB
Of this most desolateL
Spirit and leave it stripped and desecrateM
Nay never so have wrungO
From eyes and speech weakness unmanned unmeetM
As when his terrible dotage to repeatM
Its little lesson learneth at your feetM
As when he sits amongO
His sepulchres to playB
With broken toys your hand has cast awayB
With derelict trinkets of the darling youngO
Why have you taught that he might so completeM
His awful panoplyC
From your cast playthings whyR
This dreadful childish babble to his tongueO
Dreadful and sweetM

Francis Thompson



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