A Grammarian's Funeral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFEGEGEHEHEBIBJ BKBKLBLB MEMENENEOPOPQRQRSKSK TUTUSOSOSSSSSRSRVSWS BXBX BBBBVKVKBEBESUSURSRS SOSOEOEOSOSOESESBEBE SSSSOSOSSUSUYEYERORO BBBBEEEEZSZSBKBKShortly after the Revival of Learning in Europe | A |
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Let us begin and carry up this corpse | B |
Singing together | C |
Leave we the common crofts the vulgar thorpes | B |
Each in its tether | C |
Sleeping safe on the bosom of the plain | D |
Cared for till cock crow | E |
Look out if yonder be not day again | F |
Rimming the rock row | E |
That's the appropriate country there man's thought | G |
Rarer intenser | E |
Self gathered for an outbreak as it ought | G |
Chafes in the censer | E |
Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop | H |
Seek we sepulture | E |
On a tall mountain citied to the top | H |
Crowded with culture | E |
All the peaks soar but one the rest excels | B |
Clouds overcome it | I |
No yonder sparkle is the citadel's | B |
Circling its summit | J |
Thither our path lies wind we up the heights | B |
Wait ye the warning | K |
Our low life was the level's and the night's | B |
He's for the morning | K |
Step to a tune square chests erect each head | L |
'Ware the beholders | B |
This is our master famous calm and dead | L |
Borne on our shoulders | B |
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Sleep crop and herd sleep darkling thorpe and croft | M |
Safe from the weather | E |
He whom we convoy to his grave aloft | M |
Singing together | E |
He was a man born with thy face and throat | N |
Lyric Apollo | E |
Long he lived nameless how should spring take note | N |
Winter would follow | E |
Till lo the little touch and youth was gone | O |
Cramped and diminished | P |
Moaned he New measures other feet anon | O |
My dance is finished | P |
No that's the world's way keep the mountain side | Q |
Make for the city | R |
He knew the signal and stepped on with pride | Q |
Over men's pity | R |
Left play for work and grappled with the world | S |
Bent on escaping | K |
What's in the scroll quoth he thou keepest furled | S |
Show me their shaping | K |
Theirs who most studied man the bard and sage | T |
Give So he gowned him | U |
Straight got by heart that book to its last page | T |
Learned we found him | U |
Yea but we found him bald too eyes like lead | S |
Accents uncertain | O |
Time to taste life another would have said | S |
Up with the curtain | O |
This man said rather Actual life comes next | S |
Patience a moment | S |
Grant I have mastered learning's crabbed text | S |
Still there's the comment | S |
Let me know all Prate not of most or least | S |
Painful or easy | R |
Even to the crumbs I'd fain eat up the feast | S |
Ay nor feel queasy | R |
Oh such a life as he resolved to live | V |
When he had learned it | S |
When he had gathered all books had to give | W |
Sooner he spurned it | S |
Image the whole then execute the parts | B |
Fancy the fabric | X |
Quite ere you build ere steel strike fire from quartz | B |
Ere mortar dab brick | X |
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Here's the town gate reached there's the market place | B |
Gaping before us | B |
Yea this in him was the peculiar grace | B |
Hearten our chorus | B |
That before living he'd learn how to live | V |
No end to learning | K |
Earn the means first God surely will contrive | V |
Use for our earning | K |
Others mistrust and say But time escapes | B |
Live now or never | E |
He said What's time Leave Now for dogs and apes | B |
Man has Forever | E |
Back to his book then deeper drooped his head | S |
Calculus racked him | U |
Leaden before his eyes grew dross of lead | S |
Tussis attacked him | U |
Now master take a little rest not he | R |
Caution redoubled | S |
Step two abreast the way winds narrowly | R |
Not a whit troubled | S |
Back to his studies fresher than at first | S |
Fierce as a dragon | O |
He soul hydroptic with a sacred thirst | S |
Sucked at the flagon | O |
Oh if we draw a circle premature | E |
Heedless of far gain | O |
Greedy for quick returns of profit sure | E |
Bad is our bargain | O |
Was it not great did not he throw on God | S |
He loves the burthen | O |
God's task to make the heavenly period | S |
Perfect the earthen | O |
Did not he magnify the mind show clear | E |
Just what it all meant | S |
He would not discount life as fools do here | E |
Paid by instalment | S |
He ventured neck or nothing heaven's success | B |
Found or earth's failure | E |
Wilt thou trust death or not He answered Yes | B |
Hence with life's pale lure | E |
That low man seeks a little thing to do | S |
Sees it and does it | S |
This high man with a great thing to pursue | S |
Dies ere he knows it | S |
That low man goes on adding one to one | O |
His hundred's soon hit | S |
This high man aiming at a million | O |
Misses an unit | S |
That has the world here should he need the next | S |
Let the world mind him | U |
This throws himself on God and unperplexed | S |
Seeking shall find him | U |
So with the throttling hands of death at strife | Y |
Ground he at grammar | E |
Still thro' the rattle parts of speech were rife | Y |
While he could stammer | E |
He settled Hoti's business let it be | R |
Properly based Oun | O |
Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De | R |
Dead from the waist down | O |
Well here's the platform here's the proper place | B |
Hail to your purlieus | B |
All ye highfliers of the feathered race | B |
Swallows and curlews | B |
Here's the top peak the multitude below | E |
Live for they can there | E |
This man decided not to Live but Know | E |
Bury this man there | E |
Here here's his place where meteors shoot clouds form | Z |
Lightnings are loosened | S |
Stars come and go Let joy break with the storm | Z |
Peace let the dew send | S |
Lofty designs must close in like effects | B |
Loftily lying | K |
Leave him still loftier than the world suspects | B |
Living and dying | K |
Robert Browning
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