Tribute To The Memory Of The Same Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLMEENNOOOPPQQQ| LIE here without a record of thy worth | A |
| Beneath a covering of the common earth | A |
| It is not from unwillingness to praise | B |
| Or want of love that here no Stone we raise | B |
| More thou deserv'st but 'this' man gives to man | C |
| Brother to brother 'this' is all we can | C |
| Yet they to whom thy virtues made thee dear | D |
| Shall find thee through all changes of the year | D |
| This Oak points out thy grave the silent tree | E |
| Will gladly stand a monument of thee | E |
| We grieved for thee and wished thy end were past | F |
| And willingly have laid thee here at last | F |
| For thou hadst lived till everything that cheers | G |
| In thee had yielded to the weight of years | G |
| Extreme old age had wasted thee away | H |
| And left thee but a glimmering of the day | H |
| Thy ears were deaf and feeble were thy knees | I |
| I saw thee stagger in the summer breeze | I |
| Too weak to stand against its sportive breath | J |
| And ready for the gentlest stroke of death | J |
| It came and we were glad yet tears were shed | K |
| Both man and woman wept when thou wert dead | K |
| Not only for a thousand thoughts that were | L |
| Old household thoughts in which thou hadst thy share | M |
| But for some precious boons vouchsafed to thee | E |
| Found scarcely anywhere in like degree | E |
| For love that comes wherever life and sense | N |
| Are given by God in thee was most intense | N |
| A chain of heart a feeling of the mind | O |
| A tender sympathy which did thee bind | O |
| Not only to us Men but to thy Kind | O |
| Yea for thy fellow brutes in thee we saw | P |
| A soul of love love's intellectual law | P |
| Hence if we wept it was not done in shame | Q |
| Our tears from passion and from reason came | Q |
| And therefore shalt thou be an honoured name | Q |
William Wordsworth
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