Isolation : A Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCBC CDDCECA CCC DCDC FFFGHGH| My Maker shunneth me | A |
| Even as a wretch stricken with leprosy | A |
| So hold I pestilent supremacy | A |
| Yea He Instil fled far as the uttermost star | B |
| Beyond the unperturbed fastnesses of night | C |
| And dreams that bastioned are | B |
| By fretted towers of sleep that scare His light | C |
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| Of wisdom writ whereto | C |
| My burdened feet may haste withouten rue | D |
| I may not spell and I am sore to do | D |
| Yea all seeing my Maker hath such dread | C |
| Even mine own self love wists not but to fly | E |
| To Him and sore besped | C |
| Leaves me its captain in such mutiny | A |
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| Will deemed incorporate | C |
| With me bath flown ere love to expiate | C |
| Its sinful stay where He did habitate | C |
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| Ah me if they had left a sepulchre | D |
| But no the light bath changed not and in it | C |
| Of its same colour stir | D |
| Spirits I see not but phantasmed feel to flit | C |
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| Air legioned with such stirreth | F |
| So that I seem to draw them with my breath | F |
| Ghouls that devour each joy they do to death | F |
| Strange glimmering griefs and sorrowing silences | G |
| Bearing dead flowers unseen whose charnel smell | H |
| Great awe to my sense is | G |
| Even in the rose time when all else is well | H |
Isaac Rosenberg
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