In Carissimam Memoriam A.s.p. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NOPO QRQS TUTU VBVB WHWH| To whom but thee my youth to dedicate | A |
| My youth which these few leaves have sought to save | B |
| Should I now come although I come too late | A |
| Alas and can but lay them on thy grave | B |
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| To whom but thee From thee I know they stole | C |
| Their happier music all their finer part | D |
| O could they breathe but something of thy soul | C |
| Something of thine incomparable heart | D |
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| What was there lovely that thou didst not love | E |
| What troubled spirit could ever grasp thy hand | F |
| Nor know what answering springs within thee strove | G |
| To soothe his wound to feel to understand | F |
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| Too much hadst thou of pain and fret and care | H |
| Yet surely thou wast meant for joy to whom | I |
| Life that had given thee days so hard to bear | H |
| Could still yield moments of so rare a bloom | I |
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| That longing in me which can never sleep | J |
| To live my own life to be bravely free | K |
| What is that longing but the passion deep | J |
| The sweet endeavour to be true to thee | K |
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| Still in my mind the solemn morning shines | L |
| Still with me all too clearly pictured dwell | M |
| The day the hour with all their mournful signs | L |
| When we bade thee O friend of friends farewell | M |
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| Austerely fair the vast cathedral filled | N |
| With February sunshine marbles old | O |
| Pillar on pillar arch on arch revealed | P |
| The light the stillness on my grief took hold | O |
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| Hushed within those gray walls that could not change | Q |
| Where kneeling sorrow heavenly comfort hears | R |
| Appeased by their eternal strength that strange | Q |
| Itself to pain permitted human tears | S |
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| There that worn heart those arms in longing strained | T |
| Beyond beyond toward the unknown shore | U |
| Entered repose their long loved peace attained | T |
| Sweetly she sleeps O shall we wish her more | U |
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| I climbed the high tower up steep stairs of stone | V |
| Under the clear sun plains without a wave | B |
| Various and busy in the morning shone | V |
| The world about me but below thy grave | B |
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| White flowers marked it Now my flowers' poor grace | W |
| I bring to bloom or fade I little care | H |
| Ah let them fade and die in that dear place | W |
| It is enough if they have faded there | H |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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