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