Cold Comfort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCDDEEFGHH IIJJKK AAALL| Say will it when our hairs are grey | A |
| And wintry suns half light the day | A |
| Which cheering hope and strengthening trust | B |
| Have left departed turned to dust | B |
| Say will it soothe lone years to extract | C |
| From fitful shows with sense exact | C |
| Their sad residuum small of fact | C |
| Will trembling nerves their solace find | D |
| In plain conclusions of the mind | D |
| Or errant fancies fond that still | E |
| To fretful motions prompt the will | E |
| Repose upon effect and cause | F |
| And action of unvarying laws | G |
| And human life's familiar doom | H |
| And on the all concluding tomb | H |
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| Or were it to our kind and race | I |
| And our instructed selves disgrace | I |
| To wander then once more in you | J |
| Green fields beneath the pleasant blue | J |
| To dream as we were used to dream | K |
| And let things be whate'er they seem | K |
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| O feeble shapes of beggars grey | A |
| That tottering on the public way | A |
| Die out in doting dim decay | A |
| Is it to you when all is past | L |
| Our would be wisdom turns at last | L |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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