Dejection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADEFFDG HHEIHHIBJKLKAKKMNNK| Point thy battered prow to the dark shore | A |
| Thou hoary son of Erebus and dip thy blades | B |
| In the slow moving marge for I am of the | C |
| shades | B |
| And I would see the mocking earth no more | A |
| Welcome is to me that starless dome | D |
| That echoes of the dead and the black Stygian | E |
| flood | F |
| That laps upon its strand like drowsy blood | F |
| Oh bear me slow to my Avernian home | D |
| Oh bear me with slow metered melody | G |
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| And wield thine oars in tune to some Plutonian lay | H |
| For I would be with shadows and forget the day | H |
| To roam the dark aisles with Persephone | E |
| Guide me to the banks of some still stream | I |
| To pluck the frail narcissus buds where er I may | H |
| Or let me muse along some cypress shaded way | H |
| And ponder on the glories of a dream | I |
| Then would I wander in those murky glades | B |
| Where great neglected Pan doth hide his once | J |
| sought horns | K |
| And sleeps all poppy decked among his slum | L |
| bering fauns | K |
| or creeps with shut eyes through the sombre | A |
| shades | K |
| With opiate blooms all fashioned garland wise | K |
| Would I with solemn face and meekly bended | M |
| head | N |
| Go forth alone to meet the world forgotten dead | N |
| With twilight in my soul and sleep within my eyes | K |
Leon Gellert
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