Etesia Absent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHHIIFFJJKK LLLove 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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