Despair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCECDD AFFFFFFFFFF FFFFGBGBGBB| Ill fares the heart when hope has fled | A |
| When vanishes each prospect fair | B |
| When the last flickering ray has sped | A |
| And naught remains but mute despair | B |
| When inky blackness doth enshroud | C |
| The hopes the heart once held in store | D |
| As some tall pine by great winds bowed | C |
| Doth snap and when the tempest's o'er | E |
| Its noble form magnificent and proud | C |
| Doth prostrate lie nor ever riseth more | D |
| Thus breaks the heart which sees no hope before | D |
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| Ill fares the heart when hope has fled | A |
| That heart is as some ruin old | F |
| With ancient arch and wall o'erspread | F |
| With moss and desolating mold | F |
| Whose banquet halls where once the sound | F |
| Of revelry rang unconfined | F |
| Now with the hoot of owls resound | F |
| Or echo back the mournful wind | F |
| In whose foul nooks the gruesome bat is found | F |
| The heart a ruin is when unresigned | F |
| No hope before and but regret behind | F |
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| Ill fares the heart when hope has fled | F |
| That heart to fate unreconciled | F |
| Though throbbing is as truly dead | F |
| As though by foul decay defiled | F |
| That heart is as a grinning skull | G |
| With smiling mockery and stare | B |
| Of eyeless sockets or the hull | G |
| Of shipwrecked vessel bleached and bare | B |
| Derelict morbid apathetic dull | G |
| As drowning men who clutch the empty air | B |
| The heart goes down which feels but blind despair | B |
Alfred Castner King
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