Sonnet Xciv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBBCBCBCB| All is not right with him who ill sustains | A |
| Retirement's silent hours Himself he flies | B |
| Perchance from that insipid equipoise | B |
| Which always with the hapless mind remains | B |
| That feels no native bias never gains | B |
| One energy of will that does not rise | B |
| From some external cause to which he hies | B |
| From his own blank inanity When reigns | B |
| With a strong cultur'd mind this wretched hate | C |
| To commune with himself from thought that tells | B |
| Of some lost joy or dreaded stroke of Fate | C |
| He struggles to escape or sense that dwells | B |
| On secret guilt towards God or Man with weight | C |
| Thrice dire the self exiling flight impels | B |
Anna Seward
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