To The Dead Cardinal Of Westminster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB C AA DDEE FGHI JJKK LMNM OOPP QQRR QQAA SSAA AAOO TTSS RURR OOAA VVSS RRQQ UUWW AAXX YYZZ KKRR A2A2QQ AAB2B2 QQWW OOC2C2 QQJJ QQQ D2D2QQ B2B2QQ E2E2SS SSZZ QQQQ QQAA F2G2AA QQQ RRRR SSQQ ZZQQ B2B2RR QQZZ SSAA AAZZ QQA D2D2AA H2H2D2D2I will not perturbate | A |
Thy Paradisal state | A |
With praise | B |
Of thy dead days | B |
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To the new heavened say | C |
'Spirit thou wert fine clay ' | - |
This do | A |
Thy praise who knew | A |
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Therefore my spirit clings | D |
Heaven's porter by the wings | D |
And holds | E |
Its gated golds | E |
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Apart with thee to press | F |
A private business | G |
Whence | H |
Deign me audience | I |
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Anchorite who didst dwell | J |
With all the world for cell | J |
My soul | K |
Round me doth roll | K |
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A sequestration bare | L |
Too far alike we were | M |
Too far | N |
Dissimilar | M |
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For its burning fruitage I | O |
Do climb the tree o' the sky | O |
Do prize | P |
Some human eyes | P |
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YOU smelt the Heaven blossoms | Q |
And all the sweet embosoms | Q |
The dear | R |
Uranian year | R |
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Those Eyes my weak gaze shuns | Q |
Which to the suns are Suns | Q |
Did | A |
Not affray your lid | A |
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The carpet was let down | S |
With golden mouldings strown | S |
For you | A |
Of the angels' blue | A |
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But I ex Paradised | A |
The shoulder of your Christ | A |
Find high | O |
To lean thereby | O |
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So flaps my helpless sail | T |
Bellying with neither gale | T |
Of Heaven | S |
Nor Orcus even | S |
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Life is a coquetry | R |
Of Death which wearies me | U |
Too sure | R |
Of the amour | R |
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A tiring room where I | O |
Death's divers garments try | O |
Till fit | A |
Some fashion sit | A |
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It seemeth me too much | V |
I do rehearse for such | V |
A mean | S |
And single scene | S |
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The sandy glass hence bear | R |
Antique remembrancer | R |
My veins | Q |
Do spare its pains | Q |
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With secret sympathy | U |
My thoughts repeat in me | U |
Infirm | W |
The turn o' the worm | W |
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Beneath my appointed sod | A |
The grave is in my blood | A |
I shake | X |
To winds that take | X |
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Its grasses by the top | Y |
The rains thereon that drop | Y |
Perturb | Z |
With drip acerb | Z |
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My subtly answering soul | K |
The feet across its knoll | K |
Do jar | R |
Me from afar | R |
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As sap foretastes the spring | A2 |
As Earth ere blossoming | A2 |
Thrills | Q |
With far daffodils | Q |
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And feels her breast turn sweet | A |
With the unconceived wheat | A |
So doth | B2 |
My flesh foreloathe | B2 |
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The abhorred spring of Dis | Q |
With seething presciences | Q |
Affirm | W |
The preparate worm | W |
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I have no thought that I | O |
When at the last I die | O |
Shall reach | C2 |
To gain your speech | C2 |
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But you should that be so | Q |
May very well I know | Q |
May well | J |
To me in hell | J |
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With recognising eyes | Q |
Look from your Paradise | Q |
'God bless | Q |
Thy hopelessness ' | - |
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Call holy soul O call | D2 |
The hosts angelical | D2 |
And say | Q |
'See far away | Q |
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'Lies one I saw on earth | B2 |
One stricken from his birth | B2 |
With curse | Q |
Of destinate verse | Q |
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'What place doth He ye serve | E2 |
For such sad spirit reserve | E2 |
Given | S |
In dark lieu of Heaven | S |
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'The impitiable Daemon | S |
Beauty to adore and dream on | S |
To be | Z |
Perpetually | Z |
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'Hers but she never his | Q |
He reapeth miseries | Q |
Foreknows | Q |
His wages woes | Q |
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'He lives detached days | Q |
He serveth not for praise | Q |
For gold | A |
He is not sold | A |
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'Deaf is he to world's tongue | F2 |
He scorneth for his song | G2 |
The loud | A |
Shouts of the crowd | A |
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'He asketh not world's eyes | Q |
Not to world's ears he cries | Q |
Saith 'These | Q |
Shut if ye please ' | - |
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'He measureth world's pleasure | R |
World's ease as Saints might measure | R |
For hire | R |
Just love entire | R |
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'He asks not grudging pain | S |
And knows his asking vain | S |
And cries | Q |
'Love Love ' and dies | Q |
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'In guerdon of long duty | Z |
Unowned by Love or Beauty | Z |
And goes | Q |
Tell tell who knows | Q |
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'Aliens from Heaven's worth | B2 |
Fine beasts who nose i' the earth | B2 |
Do there | R |
Reward prepare | R |
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'But are HIS great desires | Q |
Food but for nether fires | Q |
Ah me | Z |
A mystery | Z |
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'Can it be his alone | S |
To find when all is known | S |
That what | A |
He solely sought | A |
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'Is lost and thereto lost | A |
All that its seeking cost | A |
That he | Z |
Must finally | Z |
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'Through sacrificial tears | Q |
And anchoretic years | Q |
Tryst | A |
With the sensualist ' | - |
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So ask and if they tell | D2 |
The secret terrible | D2 |
Good friend | A |
I pray thee send | A |
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Some high gold embassage | H2 |
To teach my unripe age | H2 |
Tell | D2 |
Lest my feet walk hell | D2 |
Francis Thompson
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