Ultimum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDEFEFGHHIAA BBDDJKLAMNON PPKKQRSSTTUUVVWWXXYY W WW| Now in these last spent drops slow slower shed | A |
| Love dies Love dies Love dies ah Love is dead | A |
| Sad Love in life sore Love in agony | B |
| Pale Love in death while all his offspring songs | C |
| Like children versed not in death's chilly wrongs | C |
| About him flit frighted to see him lie | D |
| So still who did not know that Love could die | D |
| One lifts his wing where dulls the vermeil all | E |
| Like clotting blood and shrinks to find it cold | F |
| And when she sees its lapse and nerveless fall | E |
| Clasps her fans while her sobs ooze through the webb ed gold | F |
| Thereat all weep together and their tears | G |
| Make lights like shivered moonlight on long waters | H |
| Have peace O piteous daughters | H |
| He shall not wake more through the mortal years | I |
| Nor comfort come to my soul widow ed | A |
| Nor breath to your wild wings for Love is dead | A |
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| I slew that moan for him he lifted me | B |
| Above myself and that I might not be | B |
| Less than myself need was that he should die | D |
| Since Love that first did wing now clogged me from the sky | D |
| Yet lofty Love being dead thus passeth base | J |
| There is a soul of nobleness which stays | K |
| The spectre of the rose be comforted | L |
| Songs for the dust that dims his sacred head | A |
| The days draw on too dark for Song or Love | M |
| O peace my songs nor stir ye any wing | N |
| For lo the thunder hushing all the grove | O |
| And did Love live not even Love could sing | N |
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| And Lady thus I dare to say | P |
| Not all with you is passed away | P |
| For your love taught me this 'tis Love's true praise | K |
| To be not staff but writ of worthy days | K |
| And that high worth in love unfortunate | Q |
| Should still remain it learned in love elate | R |
| Beyond your star still still the stars are bright | S |
| Beyond your highness still I follow height | S |
| Sole I go forth yet still to my sad view | T |
| Beyond your trueness Lady Truth stands true | T |
| This wisdom sings my song with last firm breath | U |
| Caught from the twisted lore of Love and Death | U |
| The strange inwoven harmony that wakes | V |
| From Pallas' straying locks twined with her aegis snakes | V |
| 'On him the unpetitioned heavens descend | W |
| Who heaven on earth proposes not for end | W |
| The perilous and celestial excess | X |
| Taking with peace lacking with thankfulness | X |
| Bliss in extreme befits thee not until | Y |
| Thou'rt not extreme in bliss be equal still | Y |
| Sweets to be granted think thy self unmeet | W |
| Till thou have learned to hold sweet not too sweet ' | - |
| This thing not far is he from wise in art | W |
| Who teacheth nor who doth from wise in heart | W |
Francis Thompson
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