Living Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHC DICJKLHC HGCGMGNC OPCHHQGKQC RDSTUU| Slow bleak awakening from the morning dream | A |
| Brings me in contact with the sudden day | B |
| I am alive this I | C |
| I let my fingers move along my body | D |
| Realization warns them and my nerves | E |
| Prepare their rapid messages and signals | F |
| While Memory begins recording coding | G |
| Repeating all the time Imagination | H |
| Mutters You'll only die | C |
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| Here's a new day O Pendulum move slowly | D |
| My usual clothes are waiting on their peg | I |
| I am alive this I | C |
| And in a moment Habit like a crane | J |
| Will bow its neck and dip its pulleyed cable | K |
| Gathering me my body and our garment | L |
| And swing me forth oblivious of my question | H |
| Into the daylight why | C |
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| I think of all the others who awaken | H |
| And wonder if they go to meet the morning | G |
| More valiantly than I | C |
| Nor asking of this Day they will be living | G |
| What have I done that I should be alive | M |
| O can I not forget that I am living | G |
| How shall I reconcile the two conditions | N |
| Living and yet to die | C |
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| Between the curtains the autumnal sunlight | O |
| With lean and yellow finger points me out | P |
| The clock moans Why Why Why | C |
| But suddenly as if without a reason | H |
| Heart Brain and Body and Imagination | H |
| All gather in tumultuous joy together | Q |
| Running like children down the path of morning | G |
| To fields where they can play without a quarrel | K |
| A country I'd forgotten but remember | Q |
| And welcome with a cry | C |
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| O cool glad pasture living tree tall corn | R |
| Great cliff or languid sloping sand cold sea | D |
| Waves rivers curving you eternal flowers | S |
| Give me content while I can think of you | T |
| Give me your living breath | U |
| Back to your rampart Death | U |
Harold Monro
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