Alfred Tennyson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDA FGFH IJIJ KLKL FMF NBNB OPOP QBQB RSRS TUTV SWSW| Westminster October | A |
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| Great man of song whose glorious laurelled head | B |
| Within the lap of death sleeps well at last | C |
| Down the dark road seeking the deathless dead | B |
| Thy faithful fearless shining soul hath passed | C |
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| Fame blows his silver trumpet o'er thy sleep | D |
| And Love stands broken by thy lonely lyre | E |
| So pure the fire God gave this clay to keep | D |
| The clay must still seem holy for the fire | A |
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| Poor dupes of sense we deem the close shut eye | F |
| So faithful servant of his golden tongue | G |
| Still holds the hoarded lights of earth and sky | F |
| We deem the mouth still full of sleeping song | H |
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| We mourn as though the great good song he gave | I |
| Passed with the singer's own informing breath | J |
| Ah golden book for thee there is no grave | I |
| Thine is a rhyme that shall not taste of death | J |
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| Great wife of his great heart 'tis yours to mourn | K |
| Son well beloved 'tis yours who loved him so | L |
| But we hath death one perfect page out torn | K |
| From the great song whereby alone we know | L |
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| The splendid spirit imperiously shy | F |
| Husband to you and father we afar | M |
| Hail poet of God and name as one should cry | F |
| 'Yonder a king and yonder lo a star ' | - |
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| So great his song we deem a little while | N |
| That Song itself with his great voice hath fled | B |
| So grand the toga sweep of his great style | N |
| So vast the theme on which his song was fed | B |
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| One sings a flower and one a face and one | O |
| Screens from the world a corner choice and small | P |
| Each toy its little laureate hath but none | O |
| Sings of the whole yea only he sang all | P |
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| Poor little bards so shameless in your care | Q |
| To snatch the mighty laurel from his head | B |
| Have you no fear dwarfs in the giant's chair | Q |
| How men shall laugh remembering the dead | B |
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| Great is advertisement 'tis almost fate | R |
| But little mushroom men of puff ball fame | S |
| Ah do you dream to be mistaken great | R |
| And to be really great are just the same | S |
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| Ah fools he was a laureate ere one leaf | T |
| Of the great crown had whispered on his brows | U |
| Fame shrilled his song Love carolled it and Grief | T |
| Blessed it with tears within her lonely house | V |
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| Fame loved him well because he loved not Fame | S |
| But Peace and Love all other things before | W |
| A man was he ere yet he was a name | S |
| His song was much because his love was more | W |
Richard Le Gallienne
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