Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGHG IJIJ KLKL MNMN JOJO PKPK NBNB QRQR OSOS| When the white flame in us is gone | A |
| And we that lost the world's delight | B |
| Stiffen in darkness left alone | C |
| To crumble in our separate night | B |
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| When your swift hair is quiet in death | D |
| And through the lips corruption thrust | E |
| Has stilled the labour of my breath | D |
| When we are dust when we are dust | E |
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| Not dead not undesirous yet | F |
| Still sentient still unsatisfied | G |
| We'll ride the air and shine and flit | H |
| Around the places where we died | G |
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| And dance as dust before the sun | I |
| And light of foot and unconfined | J |
| Hurry from road to road and run | I |
| About the errands of the wind | J |
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| And every mote on earth or air | K |
| Will speed and gleam down later days | L |
| And like a secret pilgrim fare | K |
| By eager and invisible ways | L |
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| Nor ever rest nor ever lie | M |
| Till beyond thinking out of view | N |
| One mote of all the dust that's I | M |
| Shall meet one atom that was you | N |
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| Then in some garden hushed from wind | J |
| Warm in a sunset's afterglow | O |
| The lovers in the flowers will find | J |
| A sweet and strange unquiet grow | O |
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| Upon the peace and past desiring | P |
| So high a beauty in the air | K |
| And such a light and such a quiring | P |
| And such a radiant ecstasy there | K |
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| They'll know not if it's fire or dew | N |
| Or out of earth or in the height | B |
| Singing or flame or scent or hue | N |
| Or two that pass in light to light | B |
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| Out of the garden higher higher | Q |
| But in that instant they shall learn | R |
| The shattering ecstasy of our fire | Q |
| And the weak passionless hearts will burn | R |
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| And faint in that amazing glow | O |
| Until the darkness close above | S |
| And they will know poor fools they'll know | O |
| One moment what it is to love | S |
Rupert Brooke
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