Perfect Union Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDEED FFGHHG IIJKKL MNOPQO RRSTUS VVWXYW ZZGXYG A2B2C2GGD2 E2E2F2G2G2| W K C rd MARCH | A |
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| 'A free man thinks of nothing so little as of death and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life ' Spinoza | B |
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| 'DRAW back the curtain wife ' he said | C |
| And dying raised his feeble head | C |
| As all his gathered soul leaped sheer | D |
| Into his waning eyes and yearned | E |
| After the journeying sun which turned | E |
| Towards that other hemisphere | D |
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| Then as its incandescent bulk | F |
| Sank slowly like the foundering hulk | F |
| Of some lone burning ship at sea | G |
| His life set with it bright as brief | H |
| In that invincible belief | H |
| Of Man's august supremacy | G |
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| Truth's vanward hero Calmly brave | I |
| Fronting the dumb unfathomed grave | I |
| With unintimidated eyes | J |
| Though not for him beyond its night | K |
| Resuscitated Hope alight | K |
| Prescient on peaks of Paradise | L |
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| And like some solemn parting word | M |
| From one belov d friend on board | N |
| Bound for some undiscovered shore | O |
| To one who stands with straining gaze | P |
| To catch the last look of a face | Q |
| Which he may see ah never more | O |
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| So ere he drifted to the deep | R |
| Unknowable the utter sleep | R |
| Out out beyond life's harbour bar | S |
| He whispered 'Perfect no one knows | T |
| How perfect ' and his eyes did close | U |
| Even like a sun extinguished star | S |
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| His eyes did close I held his hand | V |
| I loved so came to understand | V |
| The inmost working of his mind | W |
| Yea in that clasp I know not how | X |
| Did not his life of life then flow | Y |
| Through mine while mine was left behind | W |
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| I know not how and yet it seems | Z |
| As in some prank of shifting dreams | Z |
| That it was I who died not he | G |
| And then again I know not how | X |
| I feel new powers upheave and glow | Y |
| And all his life that stirs in me | G |
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| I am no longer what I was | A2 |
| My nature is the pictured glass | B2 |
| Where he who lived lives on and on | C2 |
| All ye who loved him ye may see | G |
| His spirits still investing me | G |
| As moonlight but reflects the sun | D2 |
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| For ever deepening grows his sway | E2 |
| A voice cries in me night and day | E2 |
| 'He'll never die to me his wife | F2 |
| In our strong love death hath no part | G2 |
| I hold and fold him in my heart | G2 |
| There he shall live while I have life ' | - |
Mathilde Blind
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