The Snowdrop Monument (in Lichfield Cathedral) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDECCE FGCHHC IIJKKJ LLMNNM OOPQQP RRSTTU VVWKKW AAXWWX YJZVVZ A2A2B2CCB2 A2A2C2TTC2Marvels of sleep grown cold | A |
Who hath not longed to fold | A |
With pitying ruth forgetful of their bliss | B |
Those cherub forms that lie | C |
With none to watch them nigh | C |
Or touch the silent lips with one warm human kiss | B |
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What they are left alone | D |
All night with graven stone | D |
Pillars and arches that above them meet | E |
While through those windows high | C |
The journeying stars can spy | C |
And dim blue moonbeams drop on their uncovered feet | E |
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O cold yet look again | F |
There is a wandering vein | G |
Traced in the hand where those white snowdrops lie | C |
Let her rapt dreamy smile | H |
The wondering heart beguile | H |
That almost thinks to hear a calm contented sigh | C |
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What silence dwells between | I |
Those severed lips serene | I |
The rapture of sweet waiting breathes and grows | J |
What trance like peace is shed | K |
On her reclining head | K |
And e'en on listless feet what languor of repose | J |
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Angels of joy and love | L |
Lean softly from above | L |
And whisper to her sweet and marvellous things | M |
Tell of the golden gate | N |
That opened wide doth wait | N |
And shadow her dim sleep with their celestial wings | M |
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Hearing of that blest shore | O |
She thinks on earth no more | O |
Contented to forego this wintry land | P |
She has nor thought nor care | Q |
But to rest calmly there | Q |
And hold the snowdrops pale that blossom in her hand | P |
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But on the other face | R |
Broodeth a mournful grace | R |
This had foreboding thoughts beyond her years | S |
While sinking thus to sleep | T |
She saw her mother weep | T |
And could not lift her hand to dry those heart sick tears | U |
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Could not but failing lay | V |
Sighed her young life away | V |
And let her arm drop down in listless rest | W |
Too weary on that bed | K |
To turn her dying head | K |
Or fold the little sister nearer to her breast | W |
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Yet this is faintly told | A |
On features fair and cold | A |
A look of calm surprise of mild regret | X |
As if with life oppressed | W |
She turned her to her rest | W |
But felt her mother's love and looked not to forget | X |
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How wistfully they close | Y |
Sweet eyes to their repose | J |
How quietly declines the placid brow | Z |
The young lips seem to say | V |
I have wept much to day | V |
And felt some bitter pains but they are over now | Z |
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Sleep there are left below | A2 |
Many who pine to go | A2 |
Many who lay it to their chastened souls | B2 |
That gloomy days draw nigh | C |
And they are blest who die | C |
For this green world grows worse the longer that she rolls | B2 |
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And as for me I know | A2 |
A little of her woe | A2 |
Her yearning want doth in my soul abide | C2 |
And sighs of them that weep | T |
O put us soon to sleep | T |
For when we wake with Thee we shall be satisfied | C2 |
Jean Ingelow
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