In Westminster Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGGHIG JHKLMNOFPHQRGSGGHT| The Southern Transept hardly known by any other name but Poets' Corner | A |
| DEAN STANLEY | B |
| - | |
| Tread softly here the sacredest of tombs | C |
| Are those that hold your poets Kings and queens | D |
| Are facile accidents of Time and Chance | E |
| Chance sets them on the heights they climb not there | F |
| But he who from the darkling mass of men | G |
| Is on the wing of heavenly thought upborne | G |
| To finer ether and becomes a voice | H |
| For all the voiceless God annointed him | I |
| His name shall be a star his grave a shrine | G |
| - | |
| Tread softly here in silent reverence tread | J |
| Beneath those marble cenotaphs and urns | H |
| Lies richer dust than ever nature hid | K |
| Packed in the mountain's adamantine heart | L |
| Or slyly wrapt in unsuspected sand | M |
| The dross men toil for and oft stain the soul | N |
| How vain and all ignoble seems that greed | O |
| To him who stands in this dim claustral air | F |
| With these most sacred ashes at his feet | P |
| This dust was Chaucer Spenser Dryden this | H |
| The spark that once illumed it lingers still | Q |
| O ever hallowed spot of English earth | R |
| If the unleashed and unhappy spirit of man | G |
| Have option to visit our dull globe | S |
| What august Shades at midnight here convene | G |
| In the miraculous sessions of the moon | G |
| When the great pulse of London faintly throbs | H |
| And one by one the stars in heaven pale | T |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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