With A Copy Of In Memoriam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DEED FGGF HIIH JKKJ LMML NOON PJJP QRRQ SGGS TUUT BVVB IEEI| TO E M II | A |
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| Dear friend you love the poet's song | B |
| And here is one for your regard | C |
| You know the melancholy bard | C |
| Whose grief is wise as well as strong | B |
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| Already something understand | D |
| For whom he mourns and what he sings | E |
| And how he wakes with golden strings | E |
| The echoes of the silent land | D |
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| How restless faint and worn with grief | F |
| Yet loving all and hoping all | G |
| He gazes where the shadows fall | G |
| And finds in darkness some relief | F |
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| And how he sends his cries across | H |
| His cries for him that comes no more | I |
| Till one might think that silent shore | I |
| Full of the burden of his loss | H |
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| And how there comes sublimer cheer | J |
| Not darkness solacing sad eyes | K |
| Not the wild joy of mournful cries | K |
| But light that makes his spirit clear | J |
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| How while he gazes something high | L |
| Something of Heaven has fallen on him | M |
| His distance and his future dim | M |
| Broken into a dawning sky | L |
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| Something of this dear friend you know | N |
| And will you take the book from me | O |
| That holds this mournful melody | O |
| And softens grief to sadness so | N |
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| Perhaps it scarcely suits the day | P |
| Of joyful hopes and memories clear | J |
| When love should have no thought of fear | J |
| And only smiles be round your way | P |
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| Yet from the mystery and the gloom | Q |
| From tempted faith and conquering trust | R |
| From spirit stronger than the dust | R |
| And love that looks beyond the tomb | Q |
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| What can there be but good to win | S |
| But hope for life but love for all | G |
| But strength whatever may befall | G |
| So for the year that you begin | S |
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| For all the years that follow this | T |
| While a long happy life endures | U |
| This hope this love this strength be yours | U |
| And afterwards a larger bliss | T |
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| May nothing in this mournful song | B |
| Too much take off your thoughts from time | V |
| For joy should fill your vernal prime | V |
| And peace your summer mild and long | B |
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| And may his love who can restore | I |
| All losses give all new good things | E |
| Like loving eyes and sheltering wings | E |
| Be round us all for evermore | I |
George Macdonald
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