Pessimism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCC BCCB DEDEBB A FBBFFBBF GHGHEE| I | A |
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| WHILE baby Spring sticks daisies in her hair | B |
| Or Summer laughs with flushed triumphant face | C |
| We crush our heart rebellious at earth's grace | C |
| And smile 'How like the season life is fair ' | - |
| But when the last leaf falls in the dull air | B |
| And skies grow pale and fields lie lost a space | C |
| Ere their first furrow ploughs begin to trace | C |
| And pastures shiver desolate and bare | B |
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| Oh then one breathes at last free from the sway | D |
| Of selfish spring from summer's insolent reign | E |
| One dares to speak the truth how all life's way | D |
| Is blank as autumn skies made grey with rain | E |
| Most blank when most the glad year bade forbear | B |
| To mar her grace with our unveiled despair | B |
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| II | A |
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| NOT Spring too lavish of her bud and leaf | F |
| But Autumn with sad eyes and brow austere | B |
| When fields are bare and woods are brown and sere | B |
| And leaden skies weep their exhaustless grief | F |
| Spring is so much too bright since Spring is brief | F |
| And in our hearts is autumn all the year | B |
| Least sad when the wide pastures are most drear | B |
| And fields grieve most robbed of the last gold sheaf | F |
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| For when the plough goes down the brown wet field | G |
| A delicate doubtful throb of hope is ours | H |
| What if this coming Spring at last should yield | G |
| Joy with her too profuse unasked for flowers | H |
| Not all our Springs of commonplace and pain | E |
| Have taught us now that autumn hope is vain | E |
Edith Nesbit
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