Revoke Not Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGII JKJKK LDLDMM| Long is it since they ceased to look on light | A |
| To thrill with hope in our fond human way | B |
| Why grudge them rest in their sweet ancient night | A |
| Ungrieved if never gay | B |
| Eased from Life's sorry day | B |
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| Is it because at times when storms subside | C |
| Through which thou oarest Life's ill fitted bark | D |
| Dreams rise from sounds of lapping of the tide | C |
| To veil the daylight stark | D |
| Its anguish and its cark | D |
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| What was their joy here Absence of great pain | E |
| Some music in lamentings of the wind | F |
| The mystic whispers of the dripping rain | E |
| Sad yearnings toward their kind | F |
| Ruth for old loves that pined | F |
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| For these would'st thou revoke their flawless rest | G |
| Restore hope unfulfilled which they knew here | H |
| Oh well they fare safe sheltered in that nest | G |
| Of silence far from fear | I |
| Their memory not yet sere | I |
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| Take thou no joy in any passing dream | J |
| Of revocation from their stainless state | K |
| Love them haste on till thou to others seem | J |
| As these to thee their mate | K |
| A waning name a date | K |
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| Till then the low keen sound of Life's Alas | L |
| Change as thou canst to themes in every key | D |
| That so for thee and others time may pass | L |
| Full of presagings of content to be | D |
| Age long in that far bourne | M |
| Till thought end quite outworn | M |
Thomas Runciman
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