Immortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HIJJ KLMM NNOO PPQQ RRFF SCKK| So I have sunk my roots in earth | A |
| Since that my pretty boys had birth | A |
| And fear no more the grave and gloom | B |
| I with the centuries to come | C |
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| As the tree blossoms so bloom I | D |
| Flinging wild branches to the sky | D |
| Renew each year my leafy suit | E |
| Strike with the years a deeper root | E |
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| Shelter a thousand birds to be | F |
| A thousand herds give praise to me | F |
| And in my kind and grateful shade | G |
| How many a weary head be laid | G |
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| I clothe myself without a stain | H |
| In me a child is born again | I |
| A child that looks with innocent eyes | J |
| On a new world with glad surprise | J |
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| The old mistakes are all undone | K |
| All the old sins are purged and gone | L |
| Old wounds and scars have left no trace | M |
| There are no lines in this young face | M |
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| To hear the cuckoo the first time | N |
| And 'mid new roses in the prime | N |
| To read the poets newly This | O |
| Year after year shall be my bliss | O |
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| Of me shall love be born anew | P |
| I shall be loved and lover too | P |
| Years after this poor body has died | Q |
| Shall be the bridegroom and the bride | Q |
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| Of me shall mothers spring to know | R |
| The mother's bliss the mother's woe | R |
| And children's children yet to be | F |
| Shall learn their prayers about my knee | F |
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| And many million lights of home | S |
| Shall light for me the time to come | C |
| Unto me much shall be forgiven | K |
| I that make many souls for heaven | K |
Katharine Tynan
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