Where Is Thy Victory? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAA CCDEAA FFGGBB HIFFJJ KLMMCC JJNOPP| None none can tell where I shall be | A |
| When the unclean earth covers me | A |
| Only in surety if thou cry | B |
| Where my perplexed ashes lie | B |
| Know 'tis but death's necessity | A |
| That keeps my tongue from answering thee | A |
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| Even if no more my shadow may | C |
| Lean for a moment in thy day | C |
| No more the whole earth lighten as if | D |
| Thou near it had nought else to give | E |
| Surely 'tis but Heaven's strategy | A |
| To prove death immortality | A |
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| Yet should I sleep and no more dream | F |
| Sad would the last awakening seem | F |
| If my cold heart with love once hot | G |
| Had thee in sleep remembered not | G |
| How could I wake to find that I | B |
| Had slept alone yet easefully | B |
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| Or should in sleep glad visions come | H |
| Sick in an alien land for home | I |
| Would be my eyes in their bright beam | F |
| Awake we know 'tis not a dream | F |
| Asleep some devil in the mind | J |
| Might truest thoughts with false enwind | J |
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| Life is a mockery if death | K |
| Have the least power men say it hath | L |
| As to a hound that mewing waits | M |
| Death opens and shuts to his gates | M |
| Else even dry bones might rise and say | C |
| 'Tis ye are dead and laid away | C |
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| Innocent children out of nought | J |
| Build up a universe of thought | J |
| And out of silence fashion Heaven | N |
| So dear is this poor dying even | O |
| Seeing thou shall be touched heard seen | P |
| Better than when dust stood between | P |
Walter De La Mare
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