Discontent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPCDC QRSRCEBE| Like a thorn in the flesh like a fly in the mesh | A |
| Like a boat that is chained to shore | B |
| The wild unrest of the heart in my breast | C |
| Tortures me more and more | B |
| I wot not why it should wail and cry | D |
| Like a child that is lost at night | E |
| For it knew no grief but has found relief | F |
| And it is not touched with blight | E |
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| It has had of pleasure full many a measure | G |
| It has thrilled with love's red wine | H |
| It has hope and health and youth's rare wealth | I |
| Oh rich is this heart of mine | H |
| Yet it is not glad it is wild and mad | J |
| Like a billow before it breaks | K |
| And its ceaseless pain is worse than vain | L |
| Since it knows not why it aches | K |
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| It longs to be like the waves of the sea | M |
| That rise in their might and beat | N |
| And dash and lunge and hurry and plunge | O |
| And die at the grey rocks' feet | N |
| It wearies of life and it sickens of strife | P |
| And yet it tires of rest | C |
| Oh I know not why it should ache and cry | D |
| 'Tis a troublesome heart at best | C |
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| Though not understood I think it a good | Q |
| And God like discontent | R |
| It springs from the soul that longs for its goal | S |
| For the source from which it was sent | R |
| Then surge O breast with thy wild unrest | C |
| Cry heart like a child at night | E |
| Till the mystic shore of the Evermore | B |
| Shall dawn on thy eager sight | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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