The Window Overlooking The Harbour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHJ KJKI LMLM NONO PBPD QBQB RSTS EUCU| Sad is the Evening all the level sand | A |
| Lies left and lonely while the restless sea | B |
| Tired of the green caresses of the land | A |
| Withdraws into its own infinity | B |
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| But still more sad this white and chilly Dawn | C |
| Filling the vacant spaces of the sky | D |
| While little winds blow here and there forlorn | E |
| And all the stars weary of shining die | D |
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| And more than desolate to wake to rise | F |
| Leaving the couch where softly sleeping still | G |
| What through the past night made my heaven lies | F |
| And looking out across the window sill | G |
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| See from the upper window's vantage ground | H |
| Mankind slip into harness once again | I |
| And wearily resume his daily round | H |
| Of love and labour toil and strife and pain | J |
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| How the sad thoughts slip back across the night | K |
| The whole thing seems so aimless and so vain | J |
| What use the raptures passion and delight | K |
| Burnt out as though they could not wake again | I |
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| The worn out nerves and weary brain repeat | L |
| The question Whither all these passions tend | M |
| This curious thirst so painful and so sweet | L |
| So fierce so very short lived to what end | M |
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| Even if seeking for ourselves the Race | N |
| The only immortality we know | O |
| Even if from the flower of our embrace | N |
| Some spark should kindle or some fruit should grow | O |
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| What were the use the gain to us or it | P |
| That we should cause another You or Me | B |
| Another life from our light passion lit | P |
| To suffer like ourselves awhile and die | D |
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| What aim what end indeed Our being runs | Q |
| In a closed circle All we know or see | B |
| Tends to assure us that a thousand Suns | Q |
| Teeming perchance with life have ceased to be | B |
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| Ah the grey Dawn seems more than desolate | R |
| And the past night of passion worse than waste | S |
| Love but a useless flower that soon or late | T |
| Turns to a fruit with bitter aftertaste | S |
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| Youth even Youth seems futile and forlorn | E |
| While the new day grows slowly white above | U |
| Pale and reproachful comes the chilly Dawn | C |
| After the fervour of a night of love | U |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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