In Memoriam (a. L. Gordon) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHIJKDLHM NOAPQHRSTUVW XBYZA2B2ZC2ZD2 E2MF2ZB2G2FH2SI2ZJ2J 2 K2J2J2L2J2At rest Hard by the margin of that sea | A |
Whose sounds are mingled with his noble verse | B |
Now lies the shell that never more will house | C |
The fine strong spirit of my gifted friend | D |
Yea he who flashed upon us suddenly | A |
A shining soul with syllables of fire | E |
Who sang the first great songs these lands can claim | F |
To be their own the one who did not seem | G |
To know what royal place awaited him | H |
Within the Temple of the Beautiful | I |
Has passed away and we who knew him sit | J |
Aghast in darkness dumb with that great grief | K |
Whose stature yet we cannot comprehend | D |
While over yonder churchyard hearsed with pines | L |
The night wind sings its immemorial hymn | H |
And sobs above a newly covered grave | M |
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The bard the scholar and the man who lived | N |
That frank that open hearted life which keeps | O |
The splendid fire of English chivalry | A |
From dying out the one who never wronged | P |
A fellow man the faithful friend who judged | Q |
The many anxious to be loved of him | H |
By what he saw and not by what he heard | R |
As lesser spirits do the brave great soul | S |
That never told a lie or turned aside | T |
To fly from danger he I say was one | U |
Of that bright company this sin stained world | V |
Can ill afford to lose | W |
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They did not know | X |
The hundreds who had read his sturdy verse | B |
And revelled over ringing major notes | Y |
The mournful meaning of the undersong | Z |
Which runs through all he wrote and often takes | A2 |
The deep autumnal half prophetic tone | B2 |
Of forest winds in March nor did they think | Z |
That on that healthy hearted man there lay | C2 |
The wild specific curse which seems to cling | Z |
For ever to the Poet's twofold life | D2 |
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To Adam Lindsay Gordon I who laid | E2 |
Two years ago on Lionel Michael's grave | M |
A tender leaf of my regard yea I | F2 |
Who culled a garland from the flowers of song | Z |
To place where Harpur sleeps I left alone | B2 |
The sad disciple of a shining band | G2 |
Now gone to Adam Lindsay Gordon's name | F |
I dedicate these lines and if 'tis true | H2 |
That past the darkness of the grave the soul | S |
Becomes omniscient then the bard may stoop | I2 |
From his high seat to take the offering | Z |
And read it with a sigh for human friends | J2 |
In human bonds and gray with human griefs | J2 |
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And having wove and proffered this poor wreath | K2 |
I stand to day as lone as he who saw | J2 |
At nightfall through the glimmering moony mists | J2 |
The last of Arthur on the wailing mere | L2 |
And strained in vain to hear the going voice | J2 |
Henry Kendall
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