Unrest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJGEGE AEAEIKIK| In the youth of the year when the birds were building | A |
| When the green was showing on tree and hedge | B |
| And the tenderest light of all lights was gilding | A |
| The world from zenith to outermost edge | B |
| My soul grew sad and longingly lonely | C |
| I sighed for the season of sun and rose | D |
| And I said In the Summer and that time only | C |
| Lies sweet contentment and blest repose | D |
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| With bee and bird for her maids of honour | E |
| Came Princess Summer in robes of green | F |
| And the King of day smiled down upon her | E |
| And wooed her and won her and made her queen | F |
| Fruit of their union and true love's pledges | G |
| Beautiful roses bloomed day by day | H |
| And rambled in gardens and hid in hedges | G |
| Like royal children in sportive play | H |
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| My restless soul for a little season | I |
| Revelled in rapture of glow and bloom | J |
| And then like a subject who harbours treason | I |
| Grew full of rebellion and grey with gloom | J |
| And I said I am sick of the summer's blisses | G |
| Of warmth and beauty and nothing more | E |
| The full fruition my sad soul misses | G |
| That beauteous Fall time holds in store | E |
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| But now when the colours are almost blinding | A |
| Burning and blending on bush and tree | E |
| And the rarest fruits are mine for the finding | A |
| And the year is ripe as a year can be | E |
| My soul complains in the same old fashion | I |
| Crying aloud in my troubled breast | K |
| Is the same old longing the same old passion | I |
| O where is the treasure which men call rest | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Insiya Yusuf Saifee: very nice poem
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