Despondency Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD EFFED GHHGD IJJID KLLLD LMMLD LNNLD| O gloomy world that rolls in weary space | A |
| And moans wild music to the broken spheres | B |
| Whose rivers wander into seas of tears | C |
| Despair has bound thee in a close embrace | A |
| A birth a life a death man is no more | D |
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| Death grows beside existence and with time | E |
| Is comrade of its changes cycles roll | F |
| Their heavy circles through the human soul | F |
| And pour their dirges into mournful rhyme | E |
| A birth a life a death man is no more | D |
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| He gropes in shadows for a happy beam | G |
| That shall delight his bosom into mist | H |
| Dissolves the substance that ambition kissed | H |
| While greatness grows the garland of a dream | G |
| A birth a life a death man is no more | D |
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| Endeavor struggles to an open grave | I |
| The past is lost in monumental dust | J |
| Where age on age in angry ire has thrust | J |
| The wise the strong the mighty and the brave | I |
| A birth a life a death man is no more | D |
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| The years are shades that totter from their tombs | K |
| The ages ghosts that live in catacombs | L |
| And lure the Present to their awful homes | L |
| Where ancient races wander in the glooms | L |
| A birth a life a death man is no more | D |
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| Oblivion welcomes men with gentle arms | L |
| And presses them like infants to her breast | M |
| Repeats to them her lullabies of rest | M |
| And guards them from all sorrows and alarms | L |
| A birth a life a death man is no more | D |
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| Then hasten world and let my battle cease | L |
| I care not where I stay nor when I go | N |
| For action gives unhappiness and woe | N |
| But Lethe brings forgetfulness and peace | L |
| A birth a life a death man is no more | D |
Freeman E. Miller
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