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