The Despair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEEE F GG HIEEE BBJJ KKCCC EEF LLJJ| Beneath this gloomy shade | A |
| By Nature only for my sorrows made | A |
| I'll spend this voyce in crys | B |
| In tears I'll waste these eyes | B |
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| By Love so vainly fed | C |
| So Lust of old the Deluge punished | D |
| Ah wretched youth said I | E |
| 'Ah wretched youth ' twice did I sadly cry | E |
| 'Ah wretched youth ' the fields and floods reply | E |
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| When thoughts of Love I entertain | F |
| I meet no words but 'Never ' and 'In vain ' | - |
| 'Never' alas that dreadful name | G |
| Which fuels the infernal flame | G |
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| 'Never ' My time to come must waste | H |
| 'In vain ' torments the present and the past | I |
| 'In vain in vain ' said I | E |
| 'In vain in vain ' twice did I sadly cry | E |
| 'In vain in vain ' the fields and floods reply | E |
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| No more shall fields or floods do so | B |
| For I to shades more dark and silent go | B |
| All this world's noise appears to me | J |
| A dull ill acted comedy | J |
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| No comfort to my wounded sight | K |
| In the suns busy and imperti'nent Light | K |
| Then down I laid my head | C |
| Down on cold earth and for a while was dead | C |
| And my freed soul to a strange somewhere fled | C |
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| 'Ah sottish Soul' said I | E |
| When back to its cage again I saw it fly | E |
| 'Fool to resume her broken chain | F |
| And row her galley here again ' | - |
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| 'Fool to that body to return | L |
| Where it condemn'd and destin'd is to burn | L |
| Once dead how can it be | J |
| Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee | J |
| That thou should'st come to live it o're again in me ' | - |
Abraham Cowley
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