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 LGVICCIWhen ich Dich liebe was geht es Dich an | A |
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I | - |
THE air is full of the peal of bells | B |
The rhythmical pealing of marriage bells | B |
But athwart and above their ringing | C |
Throbbing clear like the light of a star | D |
Lost in the sunrise I hear afar | D |
The skylark's jubilant singing | C |
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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 meadows | E |
While here on the earth's green meadows deep | F |
In sapphire flowers our earthly sheep | F |
Loll in their loitering shadows | E |
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III | - |
Come we will sit by the wayside here | G |
They must cross this field to the chapel dear | H |
The loved by the side for her lover | I |
Grey through the glimmer of vernal green | J |
Its time worn tower may just be seen | J |
Through the yews which curtain it over | I |
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IV | - |
Nay little brother why should I pine | K |
Dare a violet ask that the sun should shine | K |
The shining sun shine for it solely | L |
Lowly it lifteth its meek blue eye | - |
And yields up its soul to the sun on high | - |
Nor asks for love loving so wholly | L |
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V | L |
He passed by the garden where snow white and red | M |
I tended the flowers which give us our bread | M |
And watered my lilies and roses | N |
He passed and repassed both early and late | O |
And lingering often would lean on the gate | O |
While I tied for him one of my posies | N |
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VI | - |
Day after day would he pass this way | P |
And his smiling was sweet as the flowers of May | P |
Or the scent of the bee haunted clover | I |
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 over | I |
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VII | - |
Aye day after day he would stop on his way | P |
While the trees were in leaf and the meadows were gay | P |
And the curled little lambs were grazing | C |
As he went or returned in the waning light | Q |
From the smoke capped city whose lamps by night | Q |
Turn the black clouds red with their blazing | C |
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VIII | - |
It's a year to day when the young sun sets | N |
Since I gave him that first bunch of violets | N |
From the root on the grave of our mother | I |
Though thou seest them not with the bodily eye | - |
The language of flowers much better than I | - |
I know that thou knowest my brother | I |
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IX | N |
Violets then golden daffodils | N |
Which the light of the sun like a wine cup fills | N |
Tall tulips like flames upspringing | C |
Golden brown wallflowers bright as his locks | N |
Marigolds balsams and perfumed stocks | N |
Whose scent's like a blackbird's singing | C |
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X | N |
You see my darling I never forget | R |
Aye those were your own very words ere yet | R |
Our father lost his all in yon city | L |
Where the people they say in their struggle for gold | S |
Become like wild beasts and the feeble and old | S |
Are trampled upon without pity | L |
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XI | L |
Poor father was better to day for the smile | T |
Of the sun seemed to gladden him too for awhile | T |
As he sat by the bright little casement | L |
With buttercups heaped on his knees without stint | L |
Which deeming them childishly fresh from the mint | L |
He counted in chuckling amazement | L |
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XII | L |
The air is full of the peal of bells | L |
The rhythmical pealing of marriage bells | L |
And there floats o'er the fields o'er the fallows | L |
Borne on the wind with the wind blown chimes | L |
From the old house hidden in older limes | L |
A chatter of maidens and swallows | L |
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XIII | L |
Ah give me the flowers the last year was all | U |
In tune with the flowers from the spring to the fall | U |
And with singing of birds in the bowers | L |
And once ah look not so angry dear | H |
He whispered so softly I scarce could hear | G |
'You yourself are the flower of all flowers ' | - |
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XIV | - |
But oh when the wind was loud in the trees | L |
When the fluttering petals snowed down on the leas | L |
And the dim sun went out like an ember | I |
He stood by the gate all drenched with the mist | L |
And I gave him my last Christmas rose which he kissed | L |
For the last time that last of November | I |
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XV | - |
Say could he help if a hope as sweet | L |
As the wild thyme had sprouted under his feet | L |
If his face in my heart is enfolden | K |
As the sun smit globes of the summer rain | K |
Reflect and hold and refract again | K |
The sun the eternally golden | K |
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XVI | - |
He cometh he cometh oh brother there | V |
Ah would that you saw the glint of his hair | V |
For he looks like that saint in the story | L |
Whom you loved so to hear of in days of old | L |
Till he lit up your dreams with his curls of gold | L |
Exhaling a mystical glory | L |
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XVII | - |
The unseen wings of the morning air | V |
Fan his brow and ruffle his hair | V |
As he steps with a stately measure | I |
White daisies under his feet are spread | L |
White butterflies hover above his head | L |
White clouds high up in the azure | I |
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XVIII | - |
Pelt him with sunlit April rain | K |
Rain which ripens the earth hid grain | K |
Which brings up the grass and the heather | I |
Hark at the peal of the bridal bells | L |
How their musical chiming swells and swells | L |
As they enter the church door together | I |
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XIX | L |
Let us go hence now 'tis over the twain | K |
One will they be when they pass here again | K |
All my flowers in their pathway I scatter | I |
Though he forget me as yesterday's rose | L |
My heart with a sweet tender feeling o'erflows | L |
If I love him to whom can it matter | I |
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XX | L |
Yea let us go now the stile love is here | G |
Henceforth I live but for thee What a tear | V |
Splashed on thy hand Nay a drop from the shower | I |
That has passed over for yon on that dark | C |
Ominous cloud dearest brother the arc | C |
Of the Lord's bow now breaks into flower | I |
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