On Hearing The News From Venice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBBEEBFGFHGH IThe Death Of Robert Browning | A |
Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak | B |
And voiceless hangs the world beside his bier | C |
Our words are sobs our cry of praise a tear | D |
We are the smitten mortal we the weak | B |
We see a spirit on Earth's loftiest peak | B |
Shine and wing hence the way he makes more clear | E |
See a great Tree of Life that never sere | E |
Dropped leaf for aught that age or storms might wreak | B |
Such ending is not Death such living shows | F |
What wide illumination brightness sheds | G |
From one big heart to conquer man's old foes | F |
The coward and the tyrant and the force | H |
Of all those weedy monsters raising heads | G |
When Song is murk from springs of turbid source | H |
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December | I |
George Meredith
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