No Comfort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBCB EFGFABHB IFIFJCKCLBCB| O mad with mirth are the birds to day | A |
| That over my head are winging | B |
| There is nothing but glee in the roundelay | C |
| That I hear them singing singing | B |
| On wings of light up out of sight | D |
| I watch them airily flying | B |
| What do they know of the world below | C |
| And the hopes that are dying dying | B |
| - | |
| The roses turn to the sun's warm sky | E |
| Their sweet lips red and tender | F |
| Oh life to them is a dream of bliss | G |
| Of love and passion and splendour | F |
| What know they of the world to day | A |
| Of hearts that are silently breaking | B |
| Of the human breast and its great unrest | H |
| And its pitiless aching aching | B |
| - | |
| They send me out into Nature's heart | I |
| For help to bear my sorrow | F |
| Nothing of strength can she impart | I |
| No peace from her can I borrow | F |
| Her rose red June and her billing tune | J |
| Her birds and blossoms only | C |
| Mocked at the grief that seeks relief | K |
| And leave me lonely lonely | C |
| If I might stand on the treacherous sand | L |
| And know I was sinking sinking | B |
| While the moaning sea sang a dirge for me | C |
| Why that were comfort I'm thinking | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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