Renunciation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDC EFFE GHIJJI KKL L LMMNOON PPI I PPCQQC NNI I NNNCNNC NRRLSSL LTTLLLL LLLLLLL LUULHG LLILLI LLKKKK VVLLLL VVILLI KKILLI LKKILLI LGVICCI

When ich Dich liebe was geht es Dich anA
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I-
THE air is full of the peal of bellsB
The rhythmical pealing of marriage bellsB
But athwart and above their ringingC
Throbbing clear like the light of a starD
Lost in the sunrise I hear afarD
The skylark's jubilant singingC
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II-
The clouds all woollen and white on high-
Like flocks of heavenly sheep go by-
Go through heaven's sapphire meadowsE
While here on the earth's green meadows deepF
In sapphire flowers our earthly sheepF
Loll in their loitering shadowsE
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III-
Come we will sit by the wayside hereG
They must cross this field to the chapel dearH
The loved by the side for her loverI
Grey through the glimmer of vernal greenJ
Its time worn tower may just be seenJ
Through the yews which curtain it overI
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IV-
Nay little brother why should I pineK
Dare a violet ask that the sun should shineK
The shining sun shine for it solelyL
Lowly it lifteth its meek blue eye-
And yields up its soul to the sun on high-
Nor asks for love loving so whollyL
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VL
He passed by the garden where snow white and redM
I tended the flowers which give us our breadM
And watered my lilies and rosesN
He passed and repassed both early and lateO
And lingering often would lean on the gateO
While I tied for him one of my posiesN
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VI-
Day after day would he pass this wayP
And his smiling was sweet as the flowers of MayP
Or the scent of the bee haunted cloverI
And a softer flame seemed to light up his eye-
Than the lily white moon's in the rose hued sky-
Ere the blush of the May day is overI
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VII-
Aye day after day he would stop on his wayP
While the trees were in leaf and the meadows were gayP
And the curled little lambs were grazingC
As he went or returned in the waning lightQ
From the smoke capped city whose lamps by nightQ
Turn the black clouds red with their blazingC
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VIII-
It's a year to day when the young sun setsN
Since I gave him that first bunch of violetsN
From the root on the grave of our motherI
Though thou seest them not with the bodily eye-
The language of flowers much better than I-
I know that thou knowest my brotherI
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IXN
Violets then golden daffodilsN
Which the light of the sun like a wine cup fillsN
Tall tulips like flames upspringingC
Golden brown wallflowers bright as his locksN
Marigolds balsams and perfumed stocksN
Whose scent's like a blackbird's singingC
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XN
You see my darling I never forgetR
Aye those were your own very words ere yetR
Our father lost his all in yon cityL
Where the people they say in their struggle for goldS
Become like wild beasts and the feeble and oldS
Are trampled upon without pityL
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XIL
Poor father was better to day for the smileT
Of the sun seemed to gladden him too for awhileT
As he sat by the bright little casementL
With buttercups heaped on his knees without stintL
Which deeming them childishly fresh from the mintL
He counted in chuckling amazementL
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XIIL
The air is full of the peal of bellsL
The rhythmical pealing of marriage bellsL
And there floats o'er the fields o'er the fallowsL
Borne on the wind with the wind blown chimesL
From the old house hidden in older limesL
A chatter of maidens and swallowsL
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XIIIL
Ah give me the flowers the last year was allU
In tune with the flowers from the spring to the fallU
And with singing of birds in the bowersL
And once ah look not so angry dearH
He whispered so softly I scarce could hearG
'You yourself are the flower of all flowers '-
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XIV-
But oh when the wind was loud in the treesL
When the fluttering petals snowed down on the leasL
And the dim sun went out like an emberI
He stood by the gate all drenched with the mistL
And I gave him my last Christmas rose which he kissedL
For the last time that last of NovemberI
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XV-
Say could he help if a hope as sweetL
As the wild thyme had sprouted under his feetL
If his face in my heart is enfoldenK
As the sun smit globes of the summer rainK
Reflect and hold and refract againK
The sun the eternally goldenK
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XVI-
He cometh he cometh oh brother thereV
Ah would that you saw the glint of his hairV
For he looks like that saint in the storyL
Whom you loved so to hear of in days of oldL
Till he lit up your dreams with his curls of goldL
Exhaling a mystical gloryL
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XVII-
The unseen wings of the morning airV
Fan his brow and ruffle his hairV
As he steps with a stately measureI
White daisies under his feet are spreadL
White butterflies hover above his headL
White clouds high up in the azureI
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XVIII-
Pelt him with sunlit April rainK
Rain which ripens the earth hid grainK
Which brings up the grass and the heatherI
Hark at the peal of the bridal bellsL
How their musical chiming swells and swellsL
As they enter the church door togetherI
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XIXL
Let us go hence now 'tis over the twainK
One will they be when they pass here againK
All my flowers in their pathway I scatterI
Though he forget me as yesterday's roseL
My heart with a sweet tender feeling o'erflowsL
If I love him to whom can it matterI
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XXL
Yea let us go now the stile love is hereG
Henceforth I live but for thee What a tearV
Splashed on thy hand Nay a drop from the showerI
That has passed over for yon on that darkC
Ominous cloud dearest brother the arcC
Of the Lord's bow now breaks into flowerI

Mathilde Blind



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