Rhomboidal Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDBEFAFA GHGHIIAAJJKGLG MNMNJJOPQQRMRM STSTJJJJUUVSJS TJTJDDJJBEWTXT GYGYZZBEA2A2B2GB2G| Ah me | A |
| Am I the swain | B |
| That late from sorrow free | A |
| Did all the cares on earth disdain | B |
| And still untouched as at some safer games | C |
| Played with the burning coals of love and beauty's flames | C |
| Was't I could dive and sound each passion's secret depth at will | D |
| And from those huge o'erwhelmings rise by help of reason still | D |
| And am I now O heavens for trying this in vain | B |
| So sunk that I shall never rise again | E |
| Then let despair set sorrow's string | F |
| For strains that doleful be | A |
| And I will sing | F |
| Ah me | A |
| - | |
| But why | G |
| O fatal time | H |
| Dost thou constrain that I | G |
| Should perish in my youth's sweet prime | H |
| I but awhile ago you cruel powers | I |
| In spite of fortune cropped contentment's sweetest flowers | I |
| And yet unscorn d serve a gentle nymph the fairest she | A |
| That ever was beloved of man or eyes did ever see | A |
| Yea one whose tender heart would rue for my distress | J |
| Yet I poor I must perish ne'ertheless | J |
| And which much more augments my care | K |
| Unmoan d I must die | G |
| And no man e'er | L |
| Know why | G |
| - | |
| Thy leave | M |
| My dying song | N |
| Yet take ere grief bereave | M |
| The breath which I enjoy too long | N |
| Tell thou that fair one this my soul prefers | J |
| Her love above my life and that I died her's | J |
| And let him be for evermore to her remembrance dear | O |
| Who loved the very thought of her whilst he remained here | P |
| And now farewell thou place of my unhappy birth | Q |
| Where once I breathed the sweetest air on earth | Q |
| Since me my wonted joys forsake | R |
| And all my trust deceive | M |
| Of all I take | R |
| My leave | M |
| - | |
| Farewell | S |
| Sweet groves to you | T |
| You hills that highest dwell | S |
| And all you humble vales adieu | T |
| You wanton brooks and solitary rocks | J |
| My dear companions all and you my tender flocks | J |
| Farewell my pipe and all those pleasing songs whose moving strains | J |
| Delighted once the fairest nymphs that dance upon the plains | J |
| You discontents whose deep and over deadly smart | U |
| Have without pity broke the truest heart | U |
| Sighs tears and every sad annoy | V |
| That erst did with me dwell | S |
| And all other joys | J |
| Farewell | S |
| - | |
| Adieu | T |
| Fair shepherdesses | J |
| Let garlands of sad yew | T |
| Adorn your dainty golden tresses | J |
| I that loved you and often with my quill | D |
| Made music that delighted fountain grove and hill | D |
| I whom you loved so and with a sweet and chaste embrace | J |
| Yea with a thousand rather favours would vouchsafe to grace | J |
| I now must leave you all alone of love to plain | B |
| And never pipe nor never sing again | E |
| I must for evermore be gone | W |
| And therefore bid I you | T |
| And every one | X |
| Adieu | T |
| - | |
| I die | G |
| For oh I feel | Y |
| Death's horrors drawing nigh | G |
| And all this frame of nature reel | Y |
| My hopeless heart despairing of relief | Z |
| Sinks underneath the heavy weight of saddest grief | Z |
| Which hath so ruthless torn so racked so tortured every vein | B |
| All comfort comes too late to have it ever cured again | E |
| My swimming head begins to dance death's giddy round | A2 |
| A shuddering chillness doth each sense confound | A2 |
| Benumbed is my cold sweating brow | B2 |
| A dimness shuts my eye | G |
| And now oh now | B2 |
| I die | G |
George Wither
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