Elegiac Stanzas - Addressed To Sir G. H. B. Upon The Death Of His Sister-in-law Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJBKKB LLMNNO PPQRRQ SSTUUT VVWXXW YYZA2A2Z| O for a dirge But why complain | A |
| Ask rather a triumphal strain | A |
| When Fermor's race is run | B |
| A garland of immortal boughs | C |
| To twine around the Christian's brows | C |
| Whose glorious work is done | B |
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| We pay a high and holy debt | D |
| No tears of passionate regret | D |
| Shall stain this votive lay | E |
| Ill worthy Beaumont were the grief | F |
| That flings itself on wild relief | F |
| When Saints have passed away | E |
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| Sad doom at Sorrow's shrine to kneel | G |
| For ever covetous to feel | G |
| And impotent to bear | H |
| Such once was hers to think and think | I |
| On severed love and only sink | I |
| From anguish to despair | H |
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| But nature to its inmost part | J |
| Faith had refined and to her heart | J |
| A peaceful cradle given | B |
| Calm as the dew drop's free to rest | K |
| Within a breeze fanned rose's breast | K |
| Till it exhales to Heaven | B |
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| Was ever Spirit that could bend | L |
| So graciously that could descend | L |
| Another's need to suit | M |
| So promptly from her lofty throne | N |
| In works of love in these alone | N |
| How restless how minute | O |
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| Pale was her hue yet mortal cheek | P |
| Ne'er kindled with a livelier streak | P |
| When aught had suffered wrong | Q |
| When aught that breathes had felt a wound | R |
| Such look the Oppressor might confound | R |
| However proud and strong | Q |
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| But hushed be every thought that springs | S |
| From out the bitterness of things | S |
| Her quiet is secure | T |
| No thorns can pierce her tender feet | U |
| Whose life was like the violet sweet | U |
| As climbing jasmine pure | T |
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| As snowdrop on an infant's grave | V |
| Or lily heaving with the wave | V |
| That feeds it and defends | W |
| As Vesper ere the star hath kissed | X |
| The mountain top or breathed the mist | X |
| That from the vale ascends | W |
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| Thou takest not away O Death | Y |
| Thou strikest absence perisheth | Y |
| Indifference is no more | Z |
| The future brightens on our sight | A2 |
| For on the past hath fallen a light | A2 |
| That tempts us to adore | Z |
William Wordsworth
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