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 IEEITO 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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