Two Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFGHGII A JKJKLMLMNOPOQQ| I | A |
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| Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad | B |
| As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries | C |
| Each night since first the world was made hath had | B |
| A sequent day to laugh it down the skies | C |
| Chant us a glee to make our hearts rejoice | D |
| Or seal in silence this unmanly moan | E |
| My friend I have no power to rule my voice | D |
| A spirit lifts me where I lie alone | E |
| And thrills me into song by its own laws | F |
| That which I feel but seldom know indeed | G |
| Tempering the melody it could not cause | H |
| The bleeding heart cannot forever bleed | G |
| Inwardly solely on the wan lips too | I |
| Dark blood will bubble ghastly into view | I |
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| II | A |
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| Striving to sing glad songs I but attain | J |
| Wild discords sadder than Grief's saddest tune | K |
| As if an owl with his harsh screech should strain | J |
| To over gratulate a thrush of June | K |
| The nightingale upon its thorny spray | L |
| Finds inspiration in the sullen dark | M |
| The kindling dawn the world wide joyous day | L |
| Are inspiration to the soaring lark | M |
| The seas are silent in the sunny calm | N |
| Their anthem surges in the tempest boom | O |
| The skies outroll no solemn thunder psalm | P |
| Till they have clothed themselves with clouds of gloom | O |
| My mirth can laugh and talk but cannot sing | Q |
| My grief finds harmonies in everything | Q |
James Thomson
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