London Voluntaries - To Charles Whibley - I - Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAACDEBCFDACCEGHHC GIJIIIC| St Margaret's bells | A |
| Quiring their innocent old world canticles | A |
| Sing in the storied air | B |
| All rosy and golden as with memories | A |
| Of woods at evensong and sands and seas | A |
| Disconsolate for that the night is nigh | C |
| O the low lingering lights The large last gleam | D |
| Hark how those brazen choristers cry and call | E |
| Touching these solemn ancientries and there | B |
| The silent River ranging tide mark high | C |
| And the callow grey faced Hospital | F |
| With the strange glimmer and glamour of a dream | D |
| The Sabbath peace is in the slumbrous trees | A |
| And from the wistful the fast widowing sky | C |
| Hark how those plangent comforters call and cry | C |
| Falls as in August plots late roseleaves fall | E |
| The sober Sabbath stir | G |
| Leisurely voices desultory feet | H |
| Comes from the dry dust coloured street | H |
| Where in their summer frocks the girls go by | C |
| And sweethearts lean and loiter and confer | G |
| Just as they did an hundred years ago | I |
| Just as an hundred years to come they will | J |
| When you and I Dear Love lie lost and low | I |
| And sweet throats none our welkin shall fulfil | I |
| Nor any sunset fade serene and slow | I |
| But being dead we shall not grieve to die | C |
William Ernest Henley
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