H. P. B. (in Memoriam.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GIGI JKJK LMNM OPOP Q| Though swift the days flow from her day | A |
| No one has left her day unnamed | B |
| We know what light broke from her ray | A |
| On us who in the truth proclaimed | B |
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| Grew brother with the stars and powers | C |
| That stretch away away to light | D |
| And fade within the primal hours | C |
| And in the wondrous First unite | D |
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| We lose with her the right to scorn | E |
| The voices scornful of her truth | F |
| With her a deeper love was born | E |
| For those who filled her days with ruth | F |
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| To her they were not sordid things | G |
| In them sometimes her wisdom said | H |
| The Bird of Paradise had wings | G |
| It only dreams it is not dead | H |
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| We cannot for forgetfulness | G |
| Forego the reverence due to them | I |
| Who wear at times they do not guess | G |
| The sceptre and the diadem | I |
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| With wisdom of the olden time | J |
| She made the hearts of dust to flame | K |
| And fired us with the hope sublime | J |
| Our ancient heritage to claim | K |
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| That turning from the visible | L |
| By vastness unappalled nor stayed | M |
| Our wills might rule beside that Will | N |
| By which the tribal stars are swayed | M |
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| And entering the heroic strife | O |
| Tread in the way their feet have trod | P |
| Who move within a vaster life | O |
| Sparks in the Fire Gods amid God | P |
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| August | Q |
George William Russell
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