To The Sinking Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEDEFE GHGHIH JKLKMK NONOPO QRQRSR MTMTMU| How graciously thou wear'st the yoke | A |
| Of use that does not fail | B |
| The grasses like an anchored smoke | A |
| Ride in the bending gale | B |
| This knoll is snowed with blosmy manna | C |
| And fire dropt as a seraph's mail | B |
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| Here every eve thou stretchest out | D |
| Untarnishable wing | E |
| And marvellously bring'st about | D |
| Newly an olden thing | E |
| Nor ever through like ordered heaven | F |
| Moves largely thy grave progressing | E |
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| Here every eve thou goest down | G |
| Behind the self same hill | H |
| Nor ever twice alike go'st down | G |
| Behind the self same hill | H |
| Nor like ways is one flame sopped flower | I |
| Possessed with glory past its will | H |
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| Not twice alike I am not blind | J |
| My sight is live to see | K |
| And yet I do complain of thy | L |
| Weary variety | K |
| O Sun I ask thee less or more | M |
| Change not at all or utterly | K |
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| O give me unprevisioned new | N |
| Or give to change reprieve | O |
| For new in me is olden too | N |
| That I for sameness grieve | O |
| O flowers O grasses be but once | P |
| The grass and flower of yester eve | O |
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| Wonder and sadness are the lot | Q |
| Of change thou yield'st mine eyes | R |
| Grief of vicissitude but not | Q |
| Its penetrant surprise | R |
| Immutability mutable | S |
| Burthens my spirit and the skies | R |
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| O altered joy all joyed of yore | M |
| Plodding in unconned ways | T |
| O grief grieved out and yet once more | M |
| A dull new staled amaze | T |
| I dream and all was dreamed before | M |
| Or dream I so the dreamer says | U |
Francis Thompson
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