Trumbull Stickney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBBDDBBEBBBE A FBBFFGGFHIJIEJ| I | A |
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| In silence solitude and stern surmise | B |
| His faith was tried and proved commensurate | C |
| With life and death The stone blind eyes of Fate | D |
| Perpetually stared into his eyes | B |
| Yet to the hazard of the enterprise | B |
| He brought his soul expectant and elate | D |
| And challenged like a champion at the Gate | D |
| Death's undissuadable austerities | B |
| And thus full armed in all that Truth reprieves | B |
| From dissolution he beheld the breath | E |
| Of daybreak flush his thought's exalted ways | B |
| While like Dodona's sad prophetic leaves | B |
| Round him the scant supreme momentous days | B |
| Trembled and murmured in the wind of Death | E |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| There moved a Presence always by his side | F |
| With eyes of pleasure and passion and wild tears | B |
| And on her lips the murmur of many years | B |
| And in her hair the chaplets of a bride | F |
| And with him hour by hour came one beside | F |
| Scatheless of Time and Time's vicissitude | G |
| Whose lips perforce of endless solitude | G |
| Were silent and whose eyes were blind and wide | F |
| But when he died came One who wore a wreath | H |
| Of star light and with fingers calm and bland | I |
| Smoothed from his brows the trace of mortal pain | J |
| And of the two who stood on either hand | I |
| This one is Life he said And this is Death | E |
| And I am Love and Lord over these twain | J |
George Cabot Lodge
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