The Dead Moment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDDEFFGHIG JKJKLLMGNGOOO PPQQRSGTLTGUVUV LLTFFWWTTXWYZA2B2B2 YZC2D2C2D2A2B2EEE PPCE2F2LG2LG2H2H2WWI 2WI2 J2TTJ2K2XPL2PL2I2L2M 2

THE world is changed between us never moreA
Shall the dawn rise and seek another mateB
Over the hill tops never can the shoreA
Spread out her ragged tresses to the roarA
Of the sea passionateC
Moon chained and for a season love forbidD
Never shall shift the sullen thunder's lidD
At lightning lash and never shall the nightE
Throw the wild stars aboutF
Nor the day flicker outF
Against the evening's breath but this shall creepG
This moment on us to make differentH
The face of every day's intentI
And change the brow of sleepG
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What can we name it Oh the whitest wordJ
Would leave a stain upon that moment's mouthK
The sweetest piping heardJ
By wearying birds a SouthK
Would shake its silence let no word be saidL
What need of name or music hath the deadL
Too far for call too faint for song it isM
This ghost of ours that you have buried deepG
Less earth than any violet nourishesN
Its fragile stem would keepG
And we could lose it in the frailest shellO
Or lily's wannest bellO
In any rose's urn that dust might dwellO
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Oh to forsake it thusP
Our only one our starveling piteousP
Even as men who garner and lock upQ
Gold chasuble and cupQ
Their alabaster and their tourmalineR
Their sandal wood and wineS
Will give their dearest to the earth to keepG
Housed among strangers and will let the clayT
Or oozing river bedL
Rot all their wealth awayT
While they go home to sleepG
Will let the wild roots of the bramble clutchU
And see the careless sodV
Trample it down and bruise with common touchU
All that they knew of glory and of GodV
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Who would not house a thief so house their deadL
In the blind dark with wolf winds overheadL
When night sucks honey from the hive of dayT
They lie while April with her merry cloutF
Flings the white dust aboutF
When the swift silences that ride the SpringW
Whip on their misty chariots and wringW
Foam from the bridled lips of MayT
What time the sick moon looks up yellowlyT
Out of the pillowed skyX
Or when doth singW
Some crazy bird aslant upon a boughY
A song that makes him just this time of yearZ
A poet and can never sing againA2
When the pale lips of rainB2
Tremble above the eyelids of the plainB2
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Ah would you hide our one dead moment nowY
Even as they my dearZ
Who into one grave hurdle grace and mirthC2
Beating down Beauty with a noisy spadeD2
Nor dream that 'neath the stunned and senseless earthC2
Are all their riches laidD2
Such gold as they shall never see againA2
Such wine as shall not stainB2
Their shallow cups All beauty all delightE
Treasure unbarterable and brightE
All lie there in the cold and in the nightE
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Nay you will have it soP
Let all its sweetness goP
Brief exquisiteC
Then take it hence but make a wreath for itE2
And let us sing for it a requiemF2
Not the few strangled words above the deadL
That those whose hearts condemnG2
Mutter for having left so long unsaidL
Pity or praise to ears desiring themG2
Bury it not as something sick and shamedH2
Unfathered and unnamedH2
Nay break sweet spices myrrh and cedar bringW
Bury it as a kingW
Or some belov d child that lies beneathI2
The rose whose name he knew not wonderingW
Why his young mother wove it in a wreathI2
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For look you and remember what it gaveJ2
Those gifts that naught and none can take awayT
How it makes red as rose each pallid dayT
Each coward moment braveJ2
And how each wingless heel of MiseryK2
It sandals with a hope and sends a skyX
While we await the hour that somewhere goesP
Unmatched unmated it shall not be yetL2
Night's heavy eyelids closeP
On tears and leave the Morning's pillow wetL2
Weep not though said the requiem flung the wreathI2
Only when you forget and I forgetL2
Weep for that moment's deathM2

Muriel Stuart



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