A Mood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQRSP TUVKW XYKJZ KA2B2SC2 QD2FE2Q F2G2H2I2E2 J2K2L2JM2 G2N2O2JH2 M2L2H2P2Q2 L2R2L2BO2 NS2T2U2V2 E2R2G2KW2 X2L2L2WY2 G2Z2N2A3S| AS some great cloud upon a mountain's breast | A |
| Hanging for ever shutteth out the sun | B |
| Its chilly fingers twining in the trees | C |
| And blighting them so ever one dark thought | D |
| Broods o'er my life and makes my spirit droop | E |
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| Beneath its baleful shade A demon form | F |
| Is ever at my side whose icy touch | G |
| Freezes my warmest thoughts and makes them hang | H |
| Like dull cold icicles about my heart | I |
| I feel his presence 'mid my fellow men | J |
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| I see his image in the restless sea | K |
| That gnaws the land and on the towering top | L |
| Where everything is still amid the rocks | M |
| Worn bald by fleeting years I hear his tread | N |
| I see his footsteps in the lonely wild | O |
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| Where forests ever spring and ever die | P |
| But most of all I feel him near the night | Q |
| When all the world is shrouded in the gloom | R |
| Of dreamful Sleep so like his brother Death | S |
| I see his eyeballs on the glittering sky | P |
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| I hear his laughter ringing from the stars | T |
| That look at me and say O helpless worm | U |
| Upon the world of worms dost thou not know | V |
| The dust thou treadest in was once like thee | K |
| And laughed its laugh and had its time to weep | W |
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| And now lies helpless trampled on forgot | X |
| Scattered upon thy tiny globe which hangs | Y |
| Chained to its sun in black infinity | K |
| That thou thou too must soon be dust again | J |
| Forgotten helpless trampled on by those | Z |
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| That shall come after thee | K |
| I even hear | A2 |
| His voice amid the voices of my friends | B2 |
| Harsh taunting me with death and dreams of death | S |
| And when I gaze in rapture on the face | C2 |
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| Of whom I love he casts a hideous light | Q |
| That lets me see behind the sweet warm flesh | D2 |
| The lightless skull and o'er the rounded form | F |
| The shades of death aye dark and darker growing | E2 |
| Until the life light melts into the night | Q |
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| Oh would that I could break the curs d chain | F2 |
| That binds this monster to me for my life | G2 |
| Is like some gloomy valley that lies chill | H2 |
| Beneath a frowning precipice And yet | I2 |
| The thread of gloom is woven in my being | E2 |
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| And I am loth to rend it for my thoughts | J2 |
| Have long been shaded by it Ever since | K2 |
| I first could play I used to watch the boys | L2 |
| So joyous in their sports and saw them men | J |
| Grown chilly hearted in a chilly world | M2 |
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| Grown weary with the burden of their life | G2 |
| All restless seeking rest yet finding change | N2 |
| And then I saw the gathering shadows lower | O2 |
| Upon the evening of their life and then | J |
| They merged into the dark and all was still | H2 |
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| Dust under dust forgotten by the world | M2 |
| In ugly loathsomeness | L2 |
| The demon still | H2 |
| Was at my side in after years and threw | P2 |
| A shade on every friendship as a cloud | Q2 |
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| Floats past the sun and dims the flowering fields | L2 |
| Oft have I wondered at the woodland stream | R2 |
| That dances on through dappled lighted woods | L2 |
| O'er mossy pebbles glinting in the sun | B |
| Like eyes of merry children round the fire | O2 |
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| And never seems to think that it must thread | N |
| The misty fen where every flower grows rank | S2 |
| Amid the lazy ooze and sink at last | T2 |
| Beneath the boundless sea Oh happy they | U2 |
| Who thus go laughing on from year to year | V2 |
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| And never know the mystery of being | E2 |
| And never start and shudder at the dream | R2 |
| That they and all mankind are dreaming Life | G2 |
| And strive to wake but fall back helplessly | K |
| Who fancy sunlight when the sky is dark | W2 |
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| And never know that time like India's snake | X2 |
| Enwraps us with his gaudy coloured folds | L2 |
| Of changing seasons till his dread embrace | L2 |
| Has crushed out life who live and laugh and weep | W |
| And tread the dust of myriads underfoot | Y2 |
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| And see men die around them yet whose life | G2 |
| The demon form that stalks beside my path | Z2 |
| The consciousness of never ending change | N2 |
| Has never darkened as it darkens mine | A3 |
| Beneath the shadow of the wings of Death | S |
Frederick George Scott
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