Memorial Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEFFGHH IIJKLMLN OOHHPPQQQRS TTUUBCVVCCWXXYZZA2 A2B2C2IIII IID2D2OOPE2PE2VE2F2 G2G2H2I2 E2Goethe in Weimar sleeps and Greece | A |
Long since saw Byron's struggle cease | A |
But one such death remain'd to come | B |
The last poetic voice is dumb | B |
We stand to day by Wordsworth's tomb | C |
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When Byron's eyes were shut in death | D |
We bow'd our head and held our breath | D |
He taught us little but our soul | E |
Had felt him like the thunder's roll | E |
With shivering heart the strife we saw | F |
Of passion with eternal law | F |
And yet with reverential awe | G |
We watch'd the fount of fiery life | H |
Which served for that Titanic strife | H |
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When Goethe's death was told we said | I |
Sunk then is Europe's sagest head | I |
Physician of the iron age | J |
Goethe has done his pilgrimage | K |
He took the suffering human race | L |
He read each wound each weakness clear | M |
And struck his finger on the place | L |
And said Thou ailest here and here | N |
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He look'd on Europe's dying hour | O |
Of fitful dream and feverish power | O |
His eye plunged down the weltering strife | H |
The turmoil of expiring life | H |
He said The end is everywhere | P |
Art still has truth take refuge there | P |
And he was happy if to know | Q |
Causes of things and far below | Q |
His feet to see the lurid flow | Q |
Of terror and insane distress | R |
And headlong fate be happiness | S |
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And Wordsworth Ah pale ghosts rejoice | T |
For never has such soothing voice | T |
Been to your shadowy world convey'd | U |
Since erst at morn some wandering shade | U |
Heard the clear song of Orpheus come | B |
Through Hades and the mournful gloom | C |
Wordsworth has gone from us and ye | V |
Ah may ye feel his voice as we | V |
He too upon a wintry clime | C |
Had fallen on this iron time | C |
Of doubts disputes distractions fears | W |
He found us when the age had bound | X |
Our souls in its benumbing round | X |
He spoke and loosed our heart in tears | Y |
He laid us as we lay at birth | Z |
On the cool flowery lap of earth | Z |
Smiles broke from us and we had ease | A2 |
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The hills were round us and the breeze | A2 |
Went o'er the sun lit fields again | B2 |
Our foreheads felt the wind and rain | C2 |
Our youth return'd for there was shed | I |
On spirits that had long been dead | I |
Spirits dried up and closely furl'd | I |
The freshness of the early world | I |
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Ah since dark days still bring to light | I |
Man's prudence and man's fiery might | I |
Time may restore us in his course | D2 |
Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force | D2 |
But where will Europe's latter hour | O |
Again find Wordsworth's healing power | O |
Others will teach us how to dare | P |
And against fear our breast to steel | E2 |
Others will strengthen us to bear | P |
But who ah who will make us feel | E2 |
The cloud of mortal destiny | V |
Others will front it fearlessly | E2 |
But who like him will put it by | F2 |
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Keep fresh the grass upon his grave | G2 |
O Rotha with thy living wave | G2 |
Sing him thy best for few or none | H2 |
Hears thy voice right now he is gone | I2 |
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April | E2 |
Matthew Arnold
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