A Fragment.[73] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFGGHHIIJJFFKKLLGG MMNNOOFFPPIIQQ R S| Could I remount the river of my years | A |
| To the first fountain of our smiles and tears | B |
| I would not trace again the stream of hours | C |
| Between their outworn banks of withered flowers | C |
| But bid it flow as now until it glides | D |
| Into the number of the nameless tides | D |
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| What is this Death a quiet of the heart | E |
| The whole of that of which we are a part | E |
| For Life is but a vision what I see | F |
| Of all which lives alone is Life to me | F |
| And being so the absent are the dead | G |
| Who haunt us from tranquillity and spread | G |
| A dreary shroud around us and invest | H |
| With sad remembrancers our hours of rest | H |
| The absent are the dead for they are cold | I |
| And ne'er can be what once we did behold | I |
| And they are changed and cheerless or if yet | J |
| The unforgotten do not all forget | J |
| Since thus divided equal must it be | F |
| If the deep barrier be of earth or sea | F |
| It may be both but one day end it must | K |
| In the dark union of insensate dust | K |
| The under earth inhabitants are they | L |
| But mingled millions decomposed to clay | L |
| The ashes of a thousand ages spread | G |
| Wherever Man has trodden or shall tread | G |
| Or do they in their silent cities dwell | M |
| Each in his incommunicative cell | M |
| Or have they their own language and a sense | N |
| Of breathless being darkened and intense | N |
| As Midnight in her solitude Oh Earth | O |
| Where are the past and wherefore had they birth | O |
| The dead are thy inheritors and we | F |
| But bubbles on thy surface and the key | F |
| Of thy profundity is in the Grave | P |
| The ebon portal of thy peopled cave | P |
| Where I would walk in spirit and behold | I |
| Our elements resolved to things untold | I |
| And fathom hidden wonders and explore | Q |
| The essence of great bosoms now no more | Q |
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| Diodati July | R |
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| First published Letters and Journals ii | S |
George Gordon Byron
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