Rugby Chapel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTGJUVW LXYZA2MB2C2QD2W E2F2G2H2SI2J2 JSK2L2M2N2LO2P2KQ2O2 R2S2 T2S2O2VO2O2O2U2O2V2W 2X2O2O2Y2 O2Z2O2O2O2G2L2O2A3B3 C3D3E3F3G3H3I3J3K3O2 KO2AL3GO2M3N3G2O2J3O 2O3P3O2GQ3O2O2R3S3V2 U2H3U2O2J3T3H2G2O2 D2D2E3O2WU3O2V3V3O2 O2O2O2W3V3J2X3C3GY3O 2 C3Y2O2Z3A4WO2B4O2O2O 2GC3C4B4O2O2D4E4T3O2 F4O2O2U3O2 O2O2G4O2E3H4O2Q3WO2C 3O2V3C3Q3G2O2 O2EJG4JO2O2I4J4WB3G4 C3G4R3H3K4G4U3O2O2| Coldly sadly descends | A |
| The autumn evening The field | B |
| Strewn with its dank yellow drifts | C |
| Of wither'd leaves and the elms | D |
| Fade into dimness apace | E |
| Silent hardly a shout | F |
| From a few boys late at their play | G |
| The lights come out in the street | H |
| In the school room windows but cold | I |
| Solemn unlighted austere | J |
| Through the gathering darkness arise | K |
| The chapel walls in whose bound | L |
| Thou my father art laid | M |
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| There thou dost lie in the gloom | N |
| Of the autumn evening But ah | O |
| That word gloom to my mind | P |
| Brings thee back in the light | Q |
| Of thy radiant vigour again | R |
| In the gloom of November we pass'd | S |
| Days not dark at thy side | T |
| Seasons impair'd not the ray | G |
| Of thy buoyant cheerfulness clear | J |
| Such thou wast and I stand | U |
| In the autumn evening and think | V |
| Of bygone autumns with thee | W |
| - | |
| Fifteen years have gone round | L |
| Since thou arosest to tread | X |
| In the summer morning the road | Y |
| Of death at a call unforeseen | Z |
| Sudden For fifteen years | A2 |
| We who till then in thy shade | M |
| Rested as under the boughs | B2 |
| Of a mighty oak have endured | C2 |
| Sunshine and rain as we might | Q |
| Bare unshaded alone | D2 |
| Lacking the shelter of thee | W |
| - | |
| O strong soul by what shore | E2 |
| Tarriest thou now For that force | F2 |
| Surely has not been left vain | G2 |
| Somewhere surely afar | H2 |
| In the sounding labour house vast | S |
| Of being is practised that strength | I2 |
| Zealous beneficent firm | J2 |
| - | |
| Yes in some far shining sphere | J |
| Conscious or not of the past | S |
| Still thou performest the word | K2 |
| Of the Spirit in whom thou dost live | L2 |
| Prompt unwearied as here | M2 |
| Still thou upraisest with zeal | N2 |
| The humble good from the ground | L |
| Sternly repressest the bad | O2 |
| Still like a trumpet dost rouse | P2 |
| Those who with half open eyes | K |
| Tread the border land dim | Q2 |
| 'Twixt vice and virtue reviv'st | O2 |
| Succourest this was thy work | R2 |
| This was thy life upon earth | S2 |
| - | |
| What is the course of the life | T2 |
| Of mortal men on the earth | S2 |
| Most men eddy about | O2 |
| Here and there eat and drink | V |
| Chatter and love and hate | O2 |
| Gather and squander are raised | O2 |
| Aloft are hurl'd in the dust | O2 |
| Striving blindly achieving | U2 |
| Nothing and then they die | O2 |
| Perish and no one asks | V2 |
| Who or what they have been | W2 |
| More than he asks what waves | X2 |
| In the moonlit solitudes mild | O2 |
| Of the midmost Ocean have swell'd | O2 |
| Foam'd for a moment and gone | Y2 |
| - | |
| And there are some whom a thirst | O2 |
| Ardent unquenchable fires | Z2 |
| Not with the crowd to be spent | O2 |
| Not without aim to go round | O2 |
| In an eddy of purposeless dust | O2 |
| Effort unmeaning and vain | G2 |
| Ah yes some of us strive | L2 |
| Not without action to die | O2 |
| Fruitless but something to snatch | A3 |
| From dull oblivion nor all | B3 |
| Glut the devouring grave | C3 |
| We we have chosen our path | D3 |
| Path to a clear purposed goal | E3 |
| Path of advance but it leads | F3 |
| A long steep journey through sunk | G3 |
| Gorges o'er mountains in snow | H3 |
| Cheerful with friends we set forth | I3 |
| Then on the height comes the storm | J3 |
| Thunder crashes from rock | K3 |
| To rock the cataracts reply | O2 |
| Lightnings dazzle our eyes | K |
| Roaring torrents have breach'd | O2 |
| The track the stream bed descends | A |
| In the place where the wayfarer once | L3 |
| Planted his footstep the spray | G |
| Boils o'er its borders aloft | O2 |
| The unseen snow beds dislodge | M3 |
| Their hanging ruin alas | N3 |
| Havoc is made in our train | G2 |
| Friends who set forth at our side | O2 |
| Falter are lost in the storm | J3 |
| We we only are left | O2 |
| With frowning foreheads with lips | O3 |
| Sternly compress'd we strain on | P3 |
| On and at nightfall at last | O2 |
| Come to the end of our way | G |
| To the lonely inn 'mid the rocks | Q3 |
| Where the gaunt and taciturn host | O2 |
| Stands on the threshold the wind | O2 |
| Shaking his thin white hairs | R3 |
| Holds his lantern to scan | S3 |
| Our storm beat figures and asks | V2 |
| Whom in our party we bring | U2 |
| Whom we have left in the snow | H3 |
| Sadly we answer We bring | U2 |
| Only ourselves we lost | O2 |
| Sight of the rest in the storm | J3 |
| Hardly ourselves we fought through | T3 |
| Stripp'd without friends as we are | H2 |
| Friends companions and train | G2 |
| The avalanche swept from our side | O2 |
| - | |
| But thou woulds't not alone | D2 |
| Be saved my father alone | D2 |
| Conquer and come to thy goal | E3 |
| Leaving the rest in the wild | O2 |
| We were weary and we | W |
| Fearful and we in our march | U3 |
| Fain to drop down and to die | O2 |
| Still thou turnedst and still | V3 |
| Beckonedst the trembler and still | V3 |
| Gavest the weary thy hand | O2 |
| - | |
| If in the paths of the world | O2 |
| Stones might have wounded thy feet | O2 |
| Toil or dejection have tried | O2 |
| Thy spirit of that we saw | W3 |
| Nothing to us thou wage still | V3 |
| Cheerful and helpful and firm | J2 |
| Therefore to thee it was given | X3 |
| Many to save with thyself | C3 |
| And at the end of thy day | G |
| O faithful shepherd to come | Y3 |
| Bringing thy sheep in thy hand | O2 |
| - | |
| And through thee I believe | C3 |
| In the noble and great who are gone | Y2 |
| Pure souls honour'd and blest | O2 |
| By former ages who else | Z3 |
| Such so soulless so poor | A4 |
| Is the race of men whom I see | W |
| Seem'd but a dream of the heart | O2 |
| Seem'd but a cry of desire | B4 |
| Yes I believe that there lived | O2 |
| Others like thee in the past | O2 |
| Not like the men of the crowd | O2 |
| Who all round me to day | G |
| Bluster or cringe and make life | C3 |
| Hideous and arid and vile | C4 |
| But souls temper'd with fire | B4 |
| Fervent heroic and good | O2 |
| Helpers and friends of mankind | O2 |
| Servants of God or sons | D4 |
| Shall I not call you Because | E4 |
| Not as servants ye knew | T3 |
| Your Father's innermost mind | O2 |
| His who unwillingly sees | F4 |
| One of his little ones lost | O2 |
| Yours is the praise if mankind | O2 |
| Hath not as yet in its march | U3 |
| Fainted and fallen and died | O2 |
| - | |
| See In the rocks of the world | O2 |
| Marches the host of mankind | O2 |
| A feeble wavering line | G4 |
| Where are they tending A God | O2 |
| Marshall'd them gave them their goal | E3 |
| Ah but the way is so long | H4 |
| Years they have been in the wild | O2 |
| Sore thirst plagues them the rocks | Q3 |
| Rising all round overawe | W |
| Factions divide them their host | O2 |
| Threatens to break to dissolve | C3 |
| Ah keep keep them combined | O2 |
| Else of the myriads who fill | V3 |
| That army not one shall arrive | C3 |
| Sole they shall stray in the rocks | Q3 |
| Stagger for ever in vain | G2 |
| Die one by one in the waste | O2 |
| - | |
| Then in such hour of need | O2 |
| Of your fainting dispirited race | E |
| Ye like angels appear | J |
| Radiant with ardour divine | G4 |
| Beacons of hope ye appear | J |
| Languor is not in your heart | O2 |
| Weakness is not in your word | O2 |
| Weariness not on your brow | I4 |
| Ye alight in our van at your voice | J4 |
| Panic despair flee away | W |
| Ye move through the ranks recall | B3 |
| The stragglers refresh the outworn | G4 |
| Praise re inspire the brave | C3 |
| Order courage return | G4 |
| Eyes rekindling and prayers | R3 |
| Follow your steps as ye go | H3 |
| Ye fill up the gaps in our files | K4 |
| Strengthen the wavering line | G4 |
| Stablish continue our march | U3 |
| On to the bound of the waste | O2 |
| On to the City of God | O2 |
Matthew Arnold
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