Spleen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CC DD EE FF GG BB| For Arthur Symons | A |
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| I was not sorrowful I could not weep | B |
| And all my memories were put to sleep | B |
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| I watched the river grow more white and strange | C |
| All day till evening I watched it change | C |
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| All day till evening I watched the rain | D |
| Beat wearily upon the window pane | D |
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| I was not sorrowful but only tired | E |
| Of everything that ever I desired | E |
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| Her lips her eyes all day became to me | F |
| The shadow of a shadow utterly | F |
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| All day mine hunger for her heart became | G |
| Oblivion until the evening came | G |
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| And left me sorrowful inclined to weep | B |
| With all my memories that could not sleep | B |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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