Sorrow-s Importunity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBEB AB B| When Sorrow first came wailing to my door | A |
| April rehearsed the madrigal of May | B |
| And as I ne'er had seen her face before | A |
| I kept on singing and she went her way | B |
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| When next came Sorrow life was winged with scent | C |
| Of glistening laurel and full blossoming bay | B |
| I asked but understood not what she meant | C |
| Offered her flowers and she went her way | B |
| - | |
| When yet a third time Sorrow came we met | D |
| In the ripe silence of an Autumn day | B |
| I gave her fruit I had gathered and she ate | E |
| Then seemed to go unwillingly away | B |
| - | |
| When last came Sorrow around barn and byre | A |
| Wind carven snow the Year's white sepulchre lay | B |
| Come in '' I said and warm you by the fire '' | - |
| And there she sits and never goes away | B |
Alfred Austin
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