Vanitas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF CBCBB CGCGG| Beyond the need of weeping | A |
| Beyond the reach of hands | B |
| May she be quietly sleeping | A |
| In what dim nebulous lands | B |
| Ah she who understands | B |
| - | |
| The long long winter weather | C |
| These many years and days | D |
| Since she and Death together | C |
| Left me the wearier ways | D |
| And now these tardy bays | D |
| - | |
| The crown and victor's token | E |
| How are they worth to day | F |
| The one word left unspoken | E |
| It were late now to say | F |
| But cast the palm away | F |
| - | |
| For once ah once to meet her | C |
| Drop laurel from tired hands | B |
| Her cypress were the sweeter | C |
| In her oblivious lands | B |
| Haply she understands | B |
| - | |
| Yet crossed that weary river | C |
| In some ulterior land | G |
| Or anywhere or ever | C |
| Will she stretch out a hand | G |
| And will she understand | G |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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