In Grey Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED AFGF AECE AHIH ABJBMeasures of oil for others | A |
Oil and red wine | B |
Lips laugh and drink but never | C |
Are the lips mine | B |
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Worlds at the feet of others | A |
Power gods have known | D |
Hearts for the favoured round me | E |
Mine beats alone | D |
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Fame offering to others | A |
Chaplets of bays | F |
I with no crown of laurels | G |
Only grey days | F |
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Sweet human love for others | A |
Deep as the sea | E |
God sent unto my neighbour | C |
But not to me | E |
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Sometime I'll wrest from others | A |
More than all this | H |
I shall demand from Heaven | I |
Far sweeter bliss | H |
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What profit then to others | A |
Laughter and wine | B |
I'll have what most they covet | J |
Death will be mine | B |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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