In Memorium : Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHIJKDLHMNOAP QHRSTUVW XBYZA2B2ZC2ZD2E2MF2Z B2G2FH2SI2ZJ2J2K2J2J 2L2J2| AT 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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