Sonnets Xcii: Xciii: The Sun's Shame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCBDDDDDD ADEEDDFFDBGGBHH| I | A |
| Beholding youth and hope in mockery caught | B |
| From life and mocking pulses that remain | C |
| When the soul's death of bodily death is fain | C |
| Honour unknown and honour known unsought | B |
| And penury's sedulous self torturing thought | B |
| On gold whose master therewith buys his bane | C |
| And longed for woman longing all in vain | C |
| For lonely man with love's desire distraught | B |
| And wealth and strength and power and pleasantness | D |
| Given unto bodies of whose souls men say | D |
| None poor and weak slavish and foul as they | D |
| Beholding these things I behold no less | D |
| The blushing morn and blushing eve confess | D |
| The shame that loads the intolerable day | D |
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| II | A |
| As some true chief of men bowed down with stress | D |
| Of life's disastrous eld on blossoming youth | E |
| May gaze and murmur with self pity and ruth | E |
| Might I thy fruitless treasure but possess | D |
| Such blessing of mine all coming years should bless | D |
| Then sends one sigh forth to the unknown goal | F |
| And bitterly feels breathe against his soul | F |
| The hour swift winged of nearer nothingness | D |
| Even so the World's grey Soul to the green World | B |
| Perchance one hour must cry Woe's me for whom | G |
| Inveteracy of ill portends the doom | G |
| Whose heart's old fire in shadow of shame is furl'd | B |
| While thou even as of yore art journeying | H |
| All soulless now yet merry with the Spring | H |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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