Ode To Despair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGGHIHI JJKKLMLMNNOOKPKPQQRR SOSTUUSS| FROM THE NOVEL OF EMMELINE | A |
| THOU spectre of terrific mien | B |
| Lord of the hopeless heart and hollow eye | C |
| In whose fierce train each form is seen | B |
| That drives sick Reason to insanity | D |
| I woo thee with unusual prayer | E |
| 'Grim visaged comfortless Despair ' | F |
| Approach in me a willing victim find | G |
| Who seeks thine iron sway and calls thee kind | G |
| Ah hide for ever from my sight | H |
| The faithless flatterer Hope whose pencil gay | I |
| Portrays some vision of delight | H |
| Then bids the fairy tablet fade away | I |
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| While in dire contrast to mine eyes | J |
| Thy phantoms yet more hideous rise | J |
| And Memory draws from Pleasure's wither'd flower | K |
| Corrosives for the heart of fatal power | K |
| I bid the traitor Love adieu | L |
| Who to this fond believing bosom came | M |
| A guest insidious and untrue | L |
| With Pity's soothing voice in Friendship's name | M |
| The wounds he gave nor Time shall cure | N |
| Nor Reason teach me to endure | N |
| And to that breast mild Patience pleads in vain | O |
| Which feels the curse of meriting its pain | O |
| Yet not to me tremendous Power | K |
| Thy worst of spirit wounding pangs impart | P |
| With which in dark conviction's hour | K |
| Thou strik'st the guilty unrepentant heart | P |
| But of illusion long the sport | Q |
| That dreary tranquil gloom I court | Q |
| Where my past errors I may still deplore | R |
| And dream of long lost happiness no more | R |
| To thee I give this tortured breast | S |
| Where Hope arises but to foster pain | O |
| Ah lull its agonies to rest | S |
| Ah let me never be deceived again | T |
| But callous in thy deep repose | U |
| Behold in long array the woes | U |
| Of the dread future calm and undismay'd | S |
| Till I may claim the hope that shall not fade | S |
Charlotte Smith
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