In The Willow Shade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JHJH KLKL MNMN AOAO OJOJ PQPQ RARA RHRH HRHR PRPR RSRS THTH GRGR AOAO

I sat beneath a willow treeA
Where water falls and callsB
While fancies upon fancies solaced meA
Some true and some were falseC
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Who set their heart upon a hopeD
That never comes to passE
Droop in the end like fading heliotropeD
The sun's wan looking glassE
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Who set their will upon a whimF
Clung to through good and illG
Are wrecked alike whether they sink or swimF
Or hit or miss their willG
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All things are vain that wax and waneH
For which we waste our breathI
Love only doth not wane and is not vainH
Love only outlives deathI
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A singing lark rose toward the skyJ
Circling he sang amainH
He sang a speck scarce visible sky highJ
And then he sank againH
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A second like a sunlit sparkK
Flashed singing up his trackL
But never overtook that foremost larkK
And songless fluttered backL
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A hovering melody of birdsM
Haunted the air aboveN
They clearly sang contentment without wordsM
And youth and joy and loveN
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O silvery weeping willow treeA
With all leaves shiveringO
Have you no purpose but to shadow meA
Beside this rippled springO
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On this first fleeting day of SpringO
For Winter is gone byJ
And every bird on every quivering wingO
Floats in a sunny skyJ
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On this first Summer like soft dayP
While sunshine steeps the airQ
And every cloud has gat itself awayP
And birds sing everywhereQ
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Have you no purpose in the worldR
But thus to shadow meA
With all your tender drooping twigs unfurledR
O weeping willow treeA
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With all your tremulous leaves outspreadR
Betwixt me and the sunH
While here I loiter on a mossy bedR
With half my work undoneH
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My work undone that should be doneH
At once with all my mightR
For after the long day and lingering sunH
Comes the unworking nightR
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This day is lapsing on its wayP
Is lapsing out of sightR
And after all the chances of the dayP
Comes the resourceless nightR
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The weeping willow shook its headR
And stretched its shadow longS
The west grew crimson the sun smouldered redR
The birds forbore a songS
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Slow wind sighed through the willow leavesT
The ripple made a moanH
The world drooped murmuring like a thing that grievesT
And then I felt aloneH
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I rose to go and felt the chillG
And shivered as I wentR
Yet shivering wondered and I wonder stillG
What more that willow meantR
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That silvery weeping willow treeA
With all leaves shiveringO
Which spent one long day overshadowing meA
Beside a spring in SpringO

Christina Georgina Rossetti



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