Alcestis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIAJKLMNAOPQR QSTUPVWXYZA2B2C2Q| Not long the living weep above their dead | A |
| And you will grieve Admetus but not long | B |
| The winter's silence in these desolate halls | C |
| Will break with April's laughter on your lips | D |
| The bees among the flowers the birds that mate | E |
| The widowed year grown gaunt with memory | F |
| And yearning toward the summer's fruits will come | G |
| With lotus comfort feeding all your veins | H |
| The vining brier will crawl across my grave | I |
| And you will woo another in my stead | A |
| Those tender foolish names you called me by | J |
| Your passionate kiss that clung unsatisfied | K |
| The pressure of your hand when dark night hushed | L |
| Life's busy stir and left us two alone | M |
| Will you remember or when dawn creeps in | N |
| And you bend o'er another's pillowed head | A |
| Seeing sleep's loosened hair about her face | O |
| Until her low love laughter welcomes you | P |
| Will you down gazing at her waking eyes | Q |
| Forget | R |
| So have I loved you my Admetus | Q |
| I thank the cruel fates who clip my life | S |
| To lengthen yours they tarry not for age | T |
| To dim my eye and blanch my cheek but now | U |
| Take me while my lips are sweet to you | P |
| And youth hides yet amid this hair of mine | V |
| Brown in the shadow golden in the light | W |
| Bend down and kiss me dying for your sake | X |
| Not gratefully but sadly love's farewell | Y |
| And if the flowering year's oblivion | Z |
| Lend a new passion to thy life far down | A2 |
| In the dim Stygian shadows wandering | B2 |
| I will not know but still will cherish there | C2 |
| Where no change comes thy love upon my lips | Q |
John Charles Mcneill
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