Sonnet (quick O'er The Wintry Waste Dart Fiery Shafts) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCBCBDBDEE| Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts | A |
| Bleak blows the blast now howls then faintly dies | B |
| And oft upon its awful wings it wafts | B |
| The dying wanderer's distant feeble cries | B |
| Now when athwart the gloom gaunt Horror stalks | B |
| And midnight hags their damned vigils hold | C |
| The pensive poet 'mid the wild waste walks | B |
| And ponders on the ills life's paths unfold | C |
| Mindless of dangers hovering round he goes | B |
| Insensible to every outward ill | D |
| Yet oft his bosom heaves with rending throes | B |
| And oft big tears adown his worn cheeks trill | D |
| Ah 'tis the anguish of a mental sore | E |
| Which gnaws his heart and bids him hope no more | E |
Henry Kirk White
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