Mid-winter Monody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECFCCGC HIHIJKJK LMLMNONO HPHQIRKR SGQGJKJ| There's a bleak black world without | A |
| And the rain falls fast | B |
| And the wind with a whine and a shout | A |
| Blows buffeting past | B |
| To wail thro' the tortured trees | C |
| With cold wet breath | D |
| Like a choir of dank banshees | C |
| Foretelling death | D |
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| I sit by the fire and I now | E |
| And I juggle with rhymes | C |
| Oh the ways of our world grow odd | F |
| And the trend of our times | C |
| My tired eyes roam the news | C |
| These columns tell | G |
| Of earth and its warring views | C |
| And I sigh 'Well well ' | - |
| - | |
| Idly I turn the page | H |
| And I ponder then | I |
| Of the hopes and the dreams and the rage | H |
| And the folly of men | I |
| What profits this modern show | J |
| And where do we gain | K |
| But twenty short years ago | J |
| Ah then we were sane | K |
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| Speed drunk and pleasure crazed | L |
| We ravage and waste | M |
| Dull sentient things half dazed | L |
| By our own mad haste | M |
| Selling content for gold | N |
| Our peace for a fad | O |
| Alas for the wisdom of old | N |
| We are mad stark mad | O |
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| How when came earth's golden age | H |
| If ever it shone | P |
| Wise years of the saint and the sage | H |
| These are gone long gone | Q |
| Never to blossom again | I |
| 'Mid a peace well won | R |
| In a world of the simply sane | K |
| We are doomed We are done | R |
| - | |
| When a score more years drift on | S |
| Then another shall dwell | G |
| Here in my place when I've gone | Q |
| And he'll sigh 'Well well | G |
| What profits this modern show | J |
| And where do we gain | K |
| But twenty short years ago | J |
| Ah then we were sane ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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