On Disappointment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDDD EFGGFHIJ AKLLKMNM OEPPEQQQ RCSTCUUV WEXXEYYY PXZZXA2A2A2 ANEENLLL B2C2 EC2D2D2E2E2D2| Come Disappointment come | A |
| Not in thy terrors clad | B |
| Come in thy meekest saddest guise | C |
| Thy chastening rod but terrifies | C |
| The restless and the bad | B |
| But I recline | D |
| Beneath thy shrine | D |
| And round my brow resign'd thy peaceful cypress twine | D |
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| Though Fancy flies away | E |
| Before thy hollow tread | F |
| Yet Meditation in her cell | G |
| Hears with faint eye the lingering knell | G |
| That tells her hopes are dead | F |
| And though the tear | H |
| By chance appear | I |
| Yet she can smile and say My all was not laid here | J |
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| Come Disappointment come | A |
| Though from Hope's summit hurl'd | K |
| Still rigid Nurse thou art forgiven | L |
| For thou severe wert sent from heaven | L |
| To wean me from the world | K |
| To turn my eye | M |
| From vanity | N |
| And point to scenes of bliss that never never die | M |
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| What is this passing scene | O |
| A peevish April day | E |
| A little sun a little rain | P |
| And then night sweeps along the plain | P |
| And all things fade away | E |
| Man soon discuss'd | Q |
| Yields up his trust | Q |
| And all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust | Q |
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| Oh what is Beauty's power | R |
| It flourishes and dies | C |
| Will the cold earth its silence break | S |
| To tell how soft how smooth a cheek | T |
| Beneath its surface lies | C |
| Mute mute is all | U |
| O'er Beauty's fall | U |
| Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall | V |
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| The most beloved on earth | W |
| Not long survives to day | E |
| So music past is obsolete | X |
| And yet 'twas sweet 'twas passing sweet | X |
| But now 'tis gone away | E |
| Thus does the shade | Y |
| In memory fade | Y |
| When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid | Y |
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| Then since this world is vain | P |
| And volatile and fleet | X |
| Why should I lay up earthly joys | Z |
| Where rust corrupts and moth destroys | Z |
| And cares and sorrows eat | X |
| Why fly from ill | A2 |
| With anxious skill | A2 |
| When soon this hand will freeze this throbbing heart be still | A2 |
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| Come Disappointment come | A |
| Thou art not stern to me | N |
| Sad Monitress I own thy sway | E |
| A votary sad in early day | E |
| I bend my knee to thee | N |
| From sun to sun | L |
| My race will run | L |
| I only bow and say My God thy will be done | L |
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| On another paper are a few lines written probably in the | B2 |
| freshness of his disappointment | C2 |
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| I dream no more the vision flies away | E |
| And Disappointment | C2 |
| There fell my hopes I lost my all in this | D2 |
| My cherish'd all of visionary bliss | D2 |
| Now hope farewell farewell all joys below | E2 |
| Now welcome sorrow and now welcome woe | E2 |
| Plunge me in glooms | D2 |
Henry Kirk White
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