Sehnsucht Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCAD EECCAD FFGGAD HHIJAD HKCCAD EECCAD LLMMAD MMNNAD MMOOAM PPMMAM MMMMAM QQPPAE| Whence are ye vague desires | A |
| Which carry men along | B |
| However proud and strong | B |
| Which having ruled to day | C |
| To morrow pass away | C |
| Whence are ye vague desires | A |
| Whence are ye | D |
| - | |
| Which women yielding to | E |
| Find still so good and true | E |
| So true so good to day | C |
| To morrow gone away | C |
| Whence are ye vague desires | A |
| Whence are ye | D |
| - | |
| From seats of bliss above | F |
| Where angels sing of love | F |
| From subtle airs around | G |
| Or from the vulgar ground | G |
| Whence are ye vague desires | A |
| Whence are ye | D |
| - | |
| A message from the blest | H |
| Or bodily unrest | H |
| A call to heavenly good | I |
| A fever in the blood | J |
| What are ye vague desires | A |
| What are ye | D |
| - | |
| Which men who know you best | H |
| Are proof against the least | K |
| And rushing on to day | C |
| To morrow cast away | C |
| What are ye vague desires | A |
| What are ye | D |
| - | |
| Which women ever new | E |
| Still warned surrender to | E |
| Adored with you to day | C |
| Then cast with you away | C |
| What are ye vague desires | A |
| What are ye | D |
| - | |
| Which unto boyhood's heart | L |
| The force of man impart | L |
| And pass and leave it cold | M |
| And prematurely old | M |
| What are ye vague desires | A |
| What are ye | D |
| - | |
| Which tremblingly confest | M |
| Pour in the young girl's breast | M |
| Joy joy the like is none | N |
| And leave her then undone | N |
| What are ye vague desires | A |
| What are ye | D |
| - | |
| Ah yet though man be marred | M |
| Ignoble made and hard | M |
| Though broken women lie | O |
| In anguish down to die | O |
| Ah yet ye vague desires | A |
| Ah yet | M |
| - | |
| By Him who gave you birth | P |
| And blended you with earth | P |
| Was some good end designed | M |
| For man and womankind | M |
| Ah yet ye vague desires | A |
| Ah yet | M |
| - | |
| The petals of to day | M |
| To morrow fallen away | M |
| Shall something leave instead | M |
| To live when they are dead | M |
| When you ye vague desires | A |
| Have vanished | M |
| - | |
| A something to survive | Q |
| Of you though it derive | Q |
| Apparent earthly birth | P |
| But of far other worth | P |
| Than you ye vague desires | A |
| Than you | E |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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