For Ever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA BBCB DEBE FGBG BBBB BHIH CJBJ BBBB KLML LBDB BFLF LNON BLPL BBDB LLBL BQRQ LLPL| OUT of the body for ever | A |
| Wearily sobbing Oh whither | A |
| A Soul that hath wasted its chances | B |
| Floats on the limitless ether | A |
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| Lost in dim horrible blankness | B |
| Drifting like wind on a sea | B |
| Untraversed and vacant and moaning | C |
| Nor shallow nor shore on the lee | B |
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| Helpless unfriended forsaken | D |
| Haunted and tracked by the Past | E |
| With fragments of pitiless voices | B |
| And desolate faces aghast | E |
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| One saith It is well that he goeth | F |
| Naked and fainting with cold | G |
| Who worshipped his sweet smelling garments | B |
| Arrayed with the cunning of old | G |
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| Hark how he crieth my brothers | B |
| With pain for the glittering things | B |
| He saw on the shoulders of Rulers | B |
| And the might in the mouths of the Kings | B |
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| This Soul hath been one of the idlers | B |
| Who wait with still hands when they lack | H |
| For Fortune like Joseph to throw them | I |
| The cup thrust in Benjamin s sack | H |
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| Now had he been faithful in striving | C |
| And warring with Wrong to the sword | J |
| He must have passed over these spaces | B |
| Caught up in the arms of the Lord | J |
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| A second Lo Passion was wilful | B |
| And glad with voluptuous sighs | B |
| He held it luxurious trouble | B |
| To ache for luxurious eyes | B |
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| She bound him the woman resplendent | K |
| She withered his strength with her stare | L |
| And Faith hath been twisted and strangled | M |
| With folds of her luminous hair | L |
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| Was it well O you wandering wailer | L |
| Abandoned in terrible space | B |
| To halt on the highway to Heaven | D |
| Because of a glittering face | B |
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| And another Behold he was careful | B |
| He faltered to think of his Youth | F |
| Dejected and weary and footsore | L |
| Alone on the dim road to Truth | F |
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| If the way had been shorter and greener | L |
| And brighter he might have been brave | N |
| But the goal was too far and he fainted | O |
| Like Peter with Christ on the wave | N |
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| Beyond the wild haunts of the mockers | B |
| Far in the distance and gray | L |
| Floateth that sorrowful spirit | P |
| Away and away and away | L |
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| Pale phantoms fly past it like shadows | B |
| Dim eyes that are blinded with tears | B |
| Old faces all white with affliction | D |
| The ghosts of the wasted dead years | B |
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| Soul that hath ruined us shiver | L |
| And moan when you know us they cry | L |
| Behold I was part of thy substance | B |
| And I saith another and I | L |
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| Drifting from starless abysses | B |
| Into the ether sublime | Q |
| Where is no upward nor downward | R |
| Nor region nor record of Time | Q |
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| Out of the Body for ever | L |
| No refuge no succour nor stay | L |
| Floated that sorrowful Spirit | P |
| Away and away and away | L |
Henry Kendall
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