De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDDD EBFGBFHHH IJKIBKJJJ LBMLBMNNN OBPONPQQQ RBSRBSDDD TBUTVUWXX YBZYBZA2A2A2 B2BEB2BESSS| Ah days so dark with death's eclipse | A |
| Woe are we woe are we | B |
| And the nights are ages long | C |
| From breaking hearts thro' pallid lips | A |
| O my God woe are we | B |
| Trembleth the mourner's song | C |
| A blight is falling on the fair | D |
| And hope is dying in despair | D |
| And terror walketh everywhere | D |
| - | |
| All the hours are full of tears | E |
| O my God woe are we | B |
| Grief keeps watch in brightest eyes | F |
| Every heart is strung with fears | G |
| Woe are we woe are we | B |
| All the light hath left the skies | F |
| And the living awe struck crowds | H |
| See above them only clouds | H |
| And around them only shrouds | H |
| - | |
| Ah the terrible farewells | I |
| Woe are they woe are they | J |
| When last words sink into moans | K |
| While life's trembling vesper bells | I |
| O my God woe are we | B |
| Ring the awful undertones | K |
| Not a sun in any day | J |
| In the night time not a ray | J |
| And the dying pass away | J |
| - | |
| Dark so dark above below | L |
| O my God woe are we | B |
| Cowereth every human life | M |
| Wild the wailing to and fro | L |
| Woe are all woe are we | B |
| Death is victor in the strife | M |
| In the hut and in the hall | N |
| He is writing on the wall | N |
| Dooms for many fears for all | N |
| - | |
| Thro' the cities burns a breath | O |
| Woe are they woe are we | B |
| Hot with dread and deadly wrath | P |
| Life and love lock arms in death | O |
| Woe are they woe are all | N |
| Victims strew the spectre's path | P |
| Shy eyed children softly creep | Q |
| Where their mothers wail and weep | Q |
| In the grave their fathers sleep | Q |
| - | |
| Mothers waft their prayers on high | R |
| O my God woe are we | B |
| With their dead child on their breast | S |
| And the altars ask the sky | R |
| O my Christ woe are we | B |
| Give the dead O Father rest | S |
| Spare thy people mercy spare | D |
| Answer will not come to prayer | D |
| Horror moveth everywhere | D |
| - | |
| And the temples miss the priest | T |
| O my God woe are we | B |
| And the cradle mourns the child | U |
| Husband at your bridal feast | T |
| Woe are you woe are you | V |
| Think how those poor dead eyes smiled | U |
| They will never smile again | W |
| Every tie is cut in twain | X |
| All the strength of love is vain | X |
| - | |
| Weep but tears are weak as foam | Y |
| Woe are ye woe are we | B |
| They but break upon the shore | Z |
| Winding between here and home | Y |
| Woe are ye woe are we | B |
| Wailing never nevermore | Z |
| Ah the dead they are so lone | A2 |
| Just a grave and just a stone | A2 |
| And the memory of a moan | A2 |
| - | |
| Pray yes pray for God is sweet | B2 |
| O my God woe are we | B |
| Tears will trickle into prayers | E |
| When we kneel down at His feet | B2 |
| Woe are we woe are we | B |
| With our crosses and our cares | E |
| He will calm the tortured breast | S |
| He will give the troubled rest | S |
| And the dead He watcheth best | S |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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