Euthanasia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGGEFD FHIJJHKF LMNLLMOL PQHRRHQH LSTUUSTL LLLVVLHL FBRUUFBF| O Life O Beyond | A |
| Thou art strange thou art sweet | B |
| Mrs Browning | C |
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| Dread phantom with pale finger on thy lips | D |
| Who dost unclose the awful doors for each | E |
| That ope but once and are unclosed no more | F |
| Turn the key gently in the mystic ward | G |
| And silently unloose the silver cord | G |
| Lay thy chill seal of silence upon speech | E |
| And mutely beckon through the soundless door | F |
| To endless night and silence and eclipse | D |
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| Even now the soul unfettered may explore | F |
| On its swift wing beyond the gates of morn | H |
| Unravelled all the weary round of years | I |
| And stand unfenced of time and crowding space | J |
| With love's fond instinct in that primal place | J |
| The distant northern isle where she was born | H |
| She sees the bay the waves' deep voice she hears | K |
| And babbles of the forms that are no more | F |
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| They are the dead long laid in foreign graves | L |
| One with his sword upon his loyal breast | M |
| And one in tropic lands beneath the palm | N |
| The sea rolls dark between those hemispheres | L |
| And all the long procession of the years | L |
| Since last those warm young hands she fondly pressed | M |
| And heard through mute farewells the funeral psalm | O |
| The nevermore of the dividing waves | L |
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| The record of a life is writ between | P |
| The new world's story supplements the old | Q |
| The heathery hills the rapture of the morn | H |
| The fishers' huts the chieftain's castle gray | R |
| And the smooth crescent of the land locked bay | R |
| These the long hunger of the heart outworn | H |
| New scenes replace and the once strange and cold | Q |
| Become like those kept in the memory green | H |
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| But thou hast found already that dread place | L |
| And thy lost loved ones in that unknown goal | S |
| Ere thou hast quite put off the scrip and shell | T |
| And gathered up thy feet into the bed | U |
| And closed thine eyes the last prayers being said | U |
| Thy lips move dumbly thy delaying soul | S |
| Passes in salutation not farewell | T |
| To join the heroes of thine ancient race | L |
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| Unoutlined shadow angel of release | L |
| Whose cool hand stills the fever in the veins | L |
| And all the tumult of life's crowding cares | L |
| Ambition envy love and fear and hate | V |
| Hope's eager prophecies fulfilled too late | V |
| And fierce desires and sorrows and despairs | L |
| Thou wav'st thy mystic wand and there remain | H |
| Sleep and forgetfulness and utter peace | L |
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| Why should we fear thy shadow at the door | F |
| Oh thou mysterious Death art thou not sweet | B |
| To the worn pilgrim of life's toilsome day | R |
| Who com'st at evening time and show'st instead | U |
| Of pilgrim tent and pilgrim pallet spread | U |
| The doors of that vast caravansera | F |
| Where all the pilgrims of the ages meet | B |
| And rest together and return no more | F |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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