Commencement Of A Poem On Despair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGAHIJDAKDLBMA ANAAAAAOAAPDAQDRSAF TUVUSW SAXSYZA2FB2AC2BSome to Aonian lyres of silver sound | A |
With winning elegance attune their song | B |
Form'd to sink lightly on the soothed sense | C |
And charm the soul with softest harmony | D |
'Tis then that Hope with sanguine eye is seen | E |
Roving through Fancy's gay futurity | A |
Her heart light dancing to the sounds of pleasure | F |
Pleasure of days to come Memory too then | G |
Comes with her sister Melancholy sad | A |
Pensively musing on the scenes of youth | H |
Scenes never to return | I |
Such subjects merit poets used to raise | J |
The attic verse harmonious but for me | D |
A deadlier theme demands my backward hand | A |
And bids me strike the strings of dissonance | K |
With frantic energy | D |
'Tis wan Despair I sing if sing I can | L |
Of him before whose blast the voice of Song | B |
And Mirth and Hope and Happiness all fly | M |
Nor ever dare return His notes are heard | A |
At noon of night where on the coast of blood | A |
The lacerated son of Angola | N |
Howls forth his sufferings to the moaning wind | A |
And when the awful silence of the night | A |
Strikes the chill death dew to the murderer's heart | A |
He speaks in every conscience prompted word | A |
Half utter'd half suppressed | A |
'Tis him I sing Despair terrific name | O |
Striking unsteadily the tremulous chord | A |
Of timorous terror discord in the sound | A |
For to a theme revolting as is this | P |
Dare not I woo the maids of harmony | D |
Who love to sit and catch the soothing sound | A |
Of lyre AElig olian or the martial bugle | Q |
Calling the hero to the field of glory | D |
And firing him with deeds of high emprise | R |
And warlike triumph but from scenes like mine | S |
Shrink they affrighted and detest the bard | A |
Who dares to sound the hollow tones of horror | F |
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Hence then soft maids | T |
And woo the silken zephyr in the bowers | U |
By Heliconia's sleep inviting stream | V |
For aid like yours I seek not 'tis for powers | U |
Of darker hue to inspire a verse like mine | S |
'Tis work for wizards sorcerers and fiends | W |
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Hither ye furious imps of Acheron | S |
Nurslings of hell and beings shunning light | A |
And all the myriads of the burning concave | X |
Souls of the damned Hither oh come and join | S |
The infernal chorus 'Tis Despair I sing | Y |
He whose sole tooth inflicts a deadlier pang | Z |
Than all your tortures join'd Sing sing Despair | A2 |
Repeat the sound and celebrate his power | F |
Unite shouts screams and agonizing shrieks | B2 |
Till the loud p an ring through hell's high vault | A |
And the remotest spirits of the deep | C2 |
Leap from the lake and join the dreadful song | B |
Henry Kirk White
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