Wherefore? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDC DED ECF CGC GHG HCH CCC CIC| Deep languor overcometh mind and frame | A |
| A listless drowsy utter weariness | B |
| A trance wherein no thought finds speech or name | A |
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| The overstrained spirit doth possess | C |
| She sinks with drooping wing poor unfledged bird | D |
| That fain had flown in fluttering breathlessness | C |
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| To what end those high hopes that wildly stirred | D |
| The beating heart with aspirations vain | E |
| Why proffer prayers unanswered and unheard | D |
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| To blank deaf heavens that will not heed her pain | E |
| Where lead these lofty soaring tendencies | C |
| That leap and fly and poise to fall again | F |
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| Yet seem to link her with the utmost skies | C |
| What mean these clinging loves that bind to earth | G |
| And claim her with beseeching wistful eyes | C |
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| This little resting place 'twixt death and birth | G |
| Why is it fretted with the ceaseless flow | H |
| Of flood and ebb with overgrowth and dearth | G |
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| And vext with dreams and clouded with strange woe | H |
| Ah she is tired of thought she yearns for peace | C |
| Seeing all things one equal end must know | H |
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| Wherefore this tangle of perplexities | C |
| The trouble or the joy the weary maze | C |
| Of narrow fears and hopes that may not cease | C |
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| A chill falls on her from the skyey ways | C |
| Black with the night tide where is none to hear | I |
| The ancient cry the Wherefore of our days | C |
Emma Lazarus
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