The Voluptuary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI DJDJ DKDK CDCD DLDL| Oh I am sick of love reciprocated | A |
| Of hopes fulfilled ambitions gratified | B |
| Life holds no thing to be anticipated | C |
| And I am sad from being satisfied | B |
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| The eager joy felt climbing up a mountain | D |
| Has left me now the highest point is gained | E |
| The crystal spray that fell from Fame's fair fountain | D |
| Was sweeter than the waters were when drained | E |
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| The gilded apple which the world calls pleasure | F |
| And which I purchased with my youth and strength | G |
| Pleased me a moment But the empty treasure | F |
| Lost all its lustre and grew dim at length | G |
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| And love all glowing with a golden glory | H |
| Delighted me a season with its tale | I |
| It pleased the longest but at last the story | H |
| So oft repeated to my heart grew stale | I |
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| I lived for self and all I asked was given | D |
| I have had all and now am sick of bliss | J |
| No other punishment designed by Heaven | D |
| Could strike me half so forcibly as this | J |
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| I feel no sense of aught but enervation | D |
| In all the joys my selfish aims have brought | K |
| And know no wish but for annihilation | D |
| Since that would give me freedom from the thought | K |
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| Oh blest is he who has some aim defeated | C |
| Some mighty loss to balance all his gain | D |
| For him there is a hope not yet completed | C |
| For him hath life yet draughts of joy and pain | D |
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| But cursed is he who has no balked ambition | D |
| No hopeless hope no loss beyond repair | L |
| But sick and sated with complete fruition | D |
| Keeps not the pleasure even of despair | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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