When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACA BDBDEFFF GHGHFIFI JKJKLMLM| When coldness wraps this suffering clay | A |
| Ah whither strays the immortal mind | B |
| It cannot die it cannot stay | A |
| But leaves its darken'd dust behind | B |
| Then unembodied doth it trace | C |
| By steps each planet's heavenly way | A |
| Or fill at once the realms of space | C |
| A thing of eyes that all survey | A |
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| Eternal boundless undecay'd | B |
| A thought unseen but seeing all | D |
| All all in earth or skies display'd | B |
| Shall it survey shall it recall | D |
| Each fainter trace that memory holds | E |
| So darkly of departed years | F |
| In one broad glance the soul beholds | F |
| And all that was at once appears | F |
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| Before Creation peopled earth | G |
| Its eye shall roll through chaos back | H |
| And where the farthest heaven had birth | G |
| The spirit trace its rising track | H |
| And where the future mars or makes | F |
| Its glance dilate o'er all to be | I |
| While sun is quench'd or system breaks | F |
| Fix'd in its own eternity | I |
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| Above or Love Hope Hate or Fear | J |
| It lives all passionless and pure | K |
| An age shall fleet like earthly year | J |
| Its years as moments shall endure | K |
| Away away without a wing | L |
| O'er all through all its thought shall fly | M |
| A nameless and eternal thing | L |
| Forgetting what it was to die | M |
George Gordon Byron
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