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The Dream Of The World Without Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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NOW sitting by her side worn out with weeping	A
Behold I fell to sleep and had a vision	B
Wherein I heard a wondrous Voice intoning	A
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Crying aloud The Master on His throne	C
Openeth now the seventh seal of wonder	D
And beckoneth back the angel men name Death	E
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And at His feet the mighty Angel kneeleth	E
Breathing not and the Lord doth look upon him	F
Saying Thy wanderings on earth are ended	G
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And lo the mighty Shadow sitteth idle	H
Even at the silver gates of heaven	B
Drowsily looking in on quiet waters	I
And puts his silence among men no longer	D
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The world was very quiet Men in traffic	J
Cast looks over their shoulders pallid seamen	B
Shiver d to walk upon the decks alone	C
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And women barr d their doors with bars of iron	K
In the silence of the night and at the sunrise	L
Trembled behind the husbandmen afield	M
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I could not see a kirkyard near or far	N
I thirsted for a green grave and my vision	B
Was weary for the white gleam of a tombstone	C
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But harkening dumbly ever and anon	C
I heard a cry out of a human dwelling	A
And felt the cold wind of a lost one s going	A
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One struck a brother fiercely and he fell	O
And faded in a darkness and that other	D
Tore his hair and was afraid and could not perish	P
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One struck his aged mother on the mouth	E
And she vanish d with a gray grief from his hearthstone	C
One melted from her bairn and on the ground	Q
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With sweet unconscious eyes the bairn lay smiling	A
And many made a weeping among mountains	R
And hid themselves in caverns and were drunken	C
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I heard a voice from out the beauteous earth	E
Whose side roll d up from winter into summer	D
Crying I am grievous for my children	C
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I heard a voice from out the hoary ocean	C
Crying Burial in the breast of me were better	D
Yea burial in the salt flags and green crystals	S
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I heard a voice from out the hollow ether	D
Saying The thing ye curs d hath been abolish d	T
Corruption and decay and dissolution	C
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And the world shriek d and the summertime was bitter	D
And men and women fear d the air behind them	U
And for lack of its green graves the world was hateful	H
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Now at the bottom of a snowy mountain	C
I came upon a woman thin with sorrow	V
Whose voice was like the crying of a seagull	H
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Saying O Angel of the Lord come hither	D
And bring me him I seek for on thy bosom	W
That I may close his eyelids and embrace him	F
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I curse thee that I cannot look upon him	F
I curse thee that I know not he is sleeping	A
Yet know that he has vanish d upon God	X
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I laid my little girl upon a wood bier	Y
And very sweet she seem d and near unto me	T
And slipping flowers into her shroud was comfort	Z
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I put my silver mother in the darkness	A2
And kiss d her and was solaced by her kisses	B2
And set a stone to mark the place above her	D
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And green green were their sleeping places	B2
So green that it was pleasant to remember	D
That I and my tall man would sleep beside them	U
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The closing of dead eyelids is not dreadful	H
For comfort comes upon us when we close them	U
And tears fall and our sorrow grows familiar	D
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And we can sit above them where they slumber	D
And spin a dreamy pain into a sweetness	A2
And know indeed that we are very near them	U
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But to reach out empty arms is surely dreadful	H
And to feel the hollow empty world is awful	H
And bitter grows the silence and the distance	C2
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There is no space for grieving or for weeping	A
No touch no cold no agony to strive with	E
And nothing but a horror and a blankness	C2
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Now behold I saw a woman in a mud hut	D2
Raking the white spent embers with her fingers	C2
And fouling her bright hair with the white ashes	C2
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Her mouth was very bitter with the ashes	C2
Her eyes with dust were blinded and her sorrow	V
Sobb d in the throat of her like gurgling water	D
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And all around the voiceless hills were hoary	T
But red lights scorch d their edges and above her	D
There was a soundless trouble of the vapors	C2
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Whither and O whither said the woman	C
O Spirit of the Lord hast thou convey d them	U
My little ones my little son and daughter	D
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For lo we wander d forth at early morning	A
And winds were blowing round us and their mouths	C2
Blew rosebuds to the rosebuds and their eyes	C2
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Look d violets at the violets and their hair	E2
Made sunshine in the sunshine and their passing	A
Left a pleasure in the dewy leaves behind them	U
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And suddenly my little son look d upward	F2
And his eyes were dried like dewdrops and his going	A
Was like a blow of fire upon my face	C2
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And my little son was gone My little daughter	D
Look d round me for him clinging to my vesture	D
But the Lord had drawn him from me and I knew it	G2
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By the sign He gives the stricken that the lost one	C
Lingers nowhere on the earth on the hill or valley	T
Neither underneath the grasses nor the tree roots	C2
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And my shriek was like the splitting of an ice reef	H2
And I sank among my hair and all my palm	I2
Was moist and warm where the little hand had fill d it	G2
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Then I fled and sought him wildly hither and thither	D
Though I knew that he was stricken from me wholly	T
By the token that the Spirit gives the stricken	C
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I sought him in the sunlight and the starlight	J2
I sought him in great forests and in waters	C2
Where I saw my own pale image looking at me	T
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And I forgot my little bright hair d daughter	D
Though her voice was like a wild bird s far behind me	T
Till the voice ceas d and the universe was silent	K2
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And stilly in the starlight came I backward	F2
To the forest where I miss d him and no voices	C2
Brake the stillness as I stoop d down in the starlight	J2
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And saw two little shoes filled up with dew	L2
And no mark of little footsteps any farther	D
And knew my little daughter had gone also	V
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But beasts died yea the cattle in the yoke	M2
The milk cow in the meadow and the sheep	N2
And the dog upon the doorstep and men envied	O2
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And birds died yea the eagle at the sun gate	P2
The swan upon the waters and the farm fowl	Q2
And the swallows on the housetops and men envied	O2
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And reptiles yea the toad upon the road side	R2
The slimy speckled snake among the grass	C2
The lizard on the ruin and men envied	O2
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The dog in lonely places cried not over	D
The body of his master but it miss d him	F
And whin d into the air and died and rotted	S2
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The traveller s horse lay swollen in the pathway	T2
And the blue fly fed upon it but no traveller	D
Was there nay not his footprint on the ground	Q
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The cat mew d in the midnight and the blind	U2
Gave a rustle and the lamp burnt blue and faint	V2
And the father s bed was empty in the morning	A
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The mother fell to sleep beside the cradle	H
Rocking it while she slumber d with her foot	W2
And waken d and the cradle there was empty	T
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I saw a two years child and he was playing	A
And he found a dead white bird upon the doorway	T2
And laugh d and ran to show it to his mother	D
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The mother moan d and clutch d him and was bitter	D
And flung the dead white bird across the threshold	X2
And another white bird flitted round and round it	G2
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And utter d a sharp cry and twitter d and twitter d	T
And lit beside its dead mate and grew busy	T
Strewing it over with green leaves and yellow	V
So far so far to seek for were the limits	C2
Of affliction and men s terror grew a homeless	C2
Terror yea and a fatal sense of blankness	C2
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There was no little token of distraction	C
There was no visible presence of bereavement	K2
Such as the mourner easeth out his heart on	C
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There was no comfort in the slow farewell	O
No gentle shutting of beloved eyes	C2
Nor beautiful broodings over sleeping features	C2
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There were no kisses on familiar faces	C2
No weaving of white grave clothes no last pondering	A