Vanitas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF CBCBB CGCGGBeyond 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Dowson
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