Written After The Death Of Charles Lamb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMBNOPQRA STUKVWXYZA2A2A2A2B2C 2A2D2A2 A2E2F2B2A2A2G2A2A2JO A2UH2II2J2A2K2L2A2IA 2M2 N2O2P2A2OQ2R2S2T2U2V 2W2X2Y2A2A2Z2A2A3A2A 2PI2A2B3 OC3D3A2A2A2A2D2A2E3A 2A2N2K2A2F3A2G3H3I3R 2 J3A2K3L3A2GA2A2M3A2A 2A2N3J2 D2QD2O3P3I2A2A2Q3A2R 3L2To a good Man of most dear memory | A |
This Stone is sacred Here he lies apart | B |
From the great city where he first drew breath | C |
Was reared and taught and humbly earned his bread | D |
To the strict labours of the merchant's desk | E |
By duty chained Not seldom did those tasks | F |
Tease and the thought of time so spent depress | G |
His spirit but the recompense was high | H |
Firm Independence Bounty's rightful sire | I |
Affections warm as sunshine free as air | J |
And when the precious hours of leisure came | K |
Knowledge and wisdom gained from converse sweet | L |
With books or while he ranged the crowded streets | M |
With a keen eye and overflowing heart | B |
So genius triumphed over seeming wrong | N |
And poured out truth in works by thoughtful love | O |
Inspired works potent over smiles and tears | P |
And as round mountain tops the lightning plays | Q |
Thus innocently sported breaking forth | R |
As from a cloud of some grave sympathy | A |
Humour and wild instinctive wit and all | S |
The vivid flashes of his spoken words | T |
From the most gentle creature nursed in fields | U |
Had been derived the name he bore a name | K |
Wherever Christian altars have been raised | V |
Hallowed to meekness and to innocence | W |
And if in him meekness at times gave way | X |
Provoked out of herself by troubles strange | Y |
Many and strange that hung about his life | Z |
Still at the centre of his being lodged | A2 |
A soul by resignation sanctified | A2 |
And if too often self reproached he felt | A2 |
That innocence belongs not to our kind | A2 |
A power that never ceased to abide in him | B2 |
Charity 'mid the multitude of sins | C2 |
That she can cover left not his exposed | A2 |
To an unforgiving judgment from just Heaven | D2 |
Oh he was good if e'er a good Man lived | A2 |
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From a reflecting mind and sorrowing heart | A2 |
Those simple lines flowed with an earnest wish | E2 |
Though but a doubting hope that they might serve | F2 |
Fitly to guard the precious dust of him | B2 |
Whose virtues called them forth That aim is missed | A2 |
For much that truth most urgently required | A2 |
Had from a faltering pen been asked in vain | G2 |
Yet haply on the printed page received | A2 |
The imperfect record there may stand unblamed | A2 |
As long as verse of mine shall breathe the air | J |
Of memory or see the light of love | O |
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Thou wert a scorner of the fields my Friend | A2 |
But more in show than truth and from the fields | U |
And from the mountains to thy rural grave | H2 |
Transported my soothed spirit hovers o'er | I |
Its green untrodden turf and blowing flowers | I2 |
And taking up a voice shall speak tho' still | J2 |
Awed by the theme's peculiar sanctity | A2 |
Which words less free presumed not even to touch | K2 |
Of that fraternal love whose heaven lit lamp | L2 |
From infancy through manhood to the last | A2 |
Of threescore years and to thy latest hour | I |
Burnt on with ever strengthening light enshrined | A2 |
Within thy bosom | M2 |
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Wonderful hath been | N2 |
The love established between man and man | O2 |
Passing the love of women and between | P2 |
Man and his help mate in fast wedlock joined | A2 |
Through God is raised a spirit and soul of love | O |
Without whose blissful influence Paradise | Q2 |
Had been no Paradise and earth were now | R2 |
A waste where creatures bearing human form | S2 |
Direst of savage beasts would roam in fear | T2 |
Joyless and comfortless Our days glide on | U2 |
And let him grieve who cannot choose but grieve | V2 |
That he hath been an Elm without his Vine | W2 |
And her bright dower of clustering charities | X2 |
That round his trunk and branches might have clung | Y2 |
Enriching and adorning Unto thee | A2 |
Not so enriched not so adorned to thee | A2 |
Was given say rather thou of later birth | Z2 |
Wert given to her a Sister 'tis a word | A2 |
Timidly uttered for she 'lives' the meek | A3 |
The self restraining and the ever kind | A2 |
In whom thy reason and intelligent heart | A2 |
Found for all interests hopes and tender cares | P |
All softening humanising hallowing powers | I2 |
Whether withheld or for her sake unsought | A2 |
More than sufficient recompense | B3 |
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Her love | O |
What weakness prompts the voice to tell it here | C3 |
Was as the love of mothers and when years | D3 |
Lifting the boy to man's estate had called | A2 |
The long protected to assume the part | A2 |
Of a protector the first filial tie | A2 |
Was undissolved and in or out of sight | A2 |
Remained imperishably interwoven | D2 |
With life itself Thus 'mid a shifting world | A2 |
Did they together testify of time | E3 |
And season's difference a double tree | A2 |
With two collateral stems sprung from one root | A2 |
Such were they such thro' life they 'might' have been | N2 |
In union in partition only such | K2 |
Otherwise wrought the will of the Most High | A2 |
Yet thro' all visitations and all trials | F3 |
Still they were faithful like two vessels launched | A2 |
From the same beach one ocean to explore | G3 |
With mutual help and sailing to their league | H3 |
True as inexorable winds or bars | I3 |
Floating or fixed of polar ice allow | R2 |
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But turn we rather let my spirit turn | J3 |
With thine O silent and invisible Friend | A2 |
To those dear intervals nor rare nor brief | K3 |
When reunited and by choice withdrawn | L3 |
From miscellaneous converse ye were taught | A2 |
That the remembrance of foregone distress | G |
And the worse fear of future ill which oft | A2 |
Doth hang around it as a sickly child | A2 |
Upon its mother may be both alike | M3 |
Disarmed of power to unsettle present good | A2 |
So prized and things inward and outward held | A2 |
In such an even balance that the heart | A2 |
Acknowledges God's grace his mercy feels | N3 |
And in its depth of gratitude is still | J2 |
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O gift divine of quiet sequestration | D2 |
The hermit exercised in prayer and praise | Q |
And feeding daily on the hope of heaven | D2 |
Is happy in his vow and fondly cleaves | O3 |
To life long singleness but happier far | P3 |
Was to your souls and to the thoughts of others | I2 |
A thousand times more beautiful appeared | A2 |
Your 'dual' loneliness The sacred tie | A2 |
Is broken yet why grieve for Time but holds | Q3 |
His moiety in trust till Joy shall lead | A2 |
To the blest world where parting is unknown | R3 |
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William Wordsworth
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