Etesia Absent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHHIIFFJJKK LL| Love the world's life What a sad death | A |
| Thy absence is to lose our breath | A |
| At once and die is but to live | B |
| Enlarged without the scant reprieve | C |
| Of pulse and air whose dull returns | D |
| And narrow circles the soul mourns | E |
| But to be dead alive and still | F |
| To wish but never have our will | F |
| To be possessed and yet to miss | G |
| To wed a true but absent bliss | G |
| Are lingering tortures and their smart | H |
| Dissects and racks and grinds the heart | H |
| As soul and body in that state | I |
| Which unto us seems separate | I |
| Cannot be said to live until | F |
| Reunion which days fulfil | F |
| And slow paced seasons so in vain | J |
| Through hours and minutes Time's long train | J |
| I look for thee and from thy sight | K |
| As from my soul for life and light | K |
| For till thine eyes shine so on me | L |
| Mine are fast closed and will not see | L |
Henry Vaughan
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