Carrion Comfort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDEACD| Not I'll not carrion comfort Despair not feast on thee | A |
| Not untwist slack they may be these last strands of man | B |
| In me oacute r most weary cry I can no more I can | B |
| Can something hope wish day come not choose not to be | A |
| But ah but O thou terrible why wouldst thou rude on me | A |
| Thy wring world right foot rock lay a lionlimb against me scan | B |
| With darksome devouring eyes my bruis egrave d bones and fan | B |
| O in turns of tempest me heaped there me frantic to avoid thee and flee | A |
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| Why That my chaff might fly my grain lie sheer and clear | C |
| Nay in all that toil that coil since seems I kissed the rod | D |
| Hand rather my heart lo lapped strength stole joy would laugh ch eacute er | E |
| Cheer whom though the hero whose heaven handling flung me f oacute ot tr oacute d | A |
| Me or me that fought him O which one is it each one That night that year | C |
| Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with my God my God | D |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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