Fever! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGHIHIGJKJKLCL CMNKMNOPOPQRQRSTSTKU VVUMKMKWXWYXZA2ZA2B2 C2B2C2NLD2E2KLQF2G2Q F2| Everything seems lost and gone | A |
| The world seems void and I alone | B |
| To mourn its emptiness that am too weak to | C |
| mourn | D |
| To mope a hermit in a broken cave | E |
| Imprisoned and forlorn | D |
| The youthful wave that dashes on the outside | F |
| shore | G |
| And splits youth s passions on the moveless stones | H |
| Has failed to stir the blood that fills | I |
| The warrior heart I only see the bleaching bones | H |
| The narrow graves upon the gouged hills | I |
| And mope the more | G |
| How can the prisoned bird surmise | J |
| The passages on outer air | K |
| Or sing of Freedom to the lonely skies | J |
| When Freedom is not there | K |
| What use is it to try high Fancy s flight | L |
| Above the upper blue | C |
| The dark soul is darker that the night | L |
| And Fancy s caged too | C |
| To introspect look inward on the mind | M |
| Is gazing on a thing all bloody and unclean | N |
| Twere better that the soul were bright the gazer | K |
| blind | M |
| The beauty there and yet no beauty seen | N |
| The haunting questions of the bruised brain | O |
| Tease at the tired heart | P |
| Do tattered hills still bear unburied slain | O |
| And the far off tear drops start | P |
| Is blood still wet upon the trees | Q |
| Upon the grass | R |
| Do dead grey eyes dim glazing in the breeze | Q |
| Still stare upon the stumblers as they pass | R |
| The long long dreams that loiter in the stay | S |
| Of sleep and hold the mind clutched fast | T |
| Have left it trembling at the day | S |
| With trailing memories of the cruel past | T |
| How may the weary day be spent The weary | K |
| week | U |
| Choose thoughts Choose dreams What choice | V |
| The long mute inward voice | V |
| Forgets to speak | U |
| The ears are deaf the eyes to beauty blind | M |
| Unheeded are the laughing fields afar | K |
| The glory of the wheeling western wind | M |
| The shivering star | K |
| The fault Lies that with fate Or with age | W |
| The singing poet within his Isles of Peace | X |
| Is glad The sage | W |
| Upon his mountain height But running blood | Y |
| can t cease | X |
| For him who fights till death | Z |
| Til smiling lips besmeared and red with foam | A2 |
| Move faintly with a feeble breath | Z |
| In words of home | A2 |
| Tis sad But still tis rest | B2 |
| And what to show | C2 |
| A small black wound upon a dauntless breast | B2 |
| True heart and conscience as the snow | C2 |
| And he knows has fought has seen | N |
| And now is caged without yet hears the fight | L |
| He wonders what is done and thinks of what | D2 |
| has been | E2 |
| He bears the burden of the dark and cries for | K |
| light | L |
| But he who prone with wounds and slow disease | Q |
| Too weak to grapple with the bars | F2 |
| The bars that bind encaged by the surrounding | G2 |
| seas | Q |
| Can only gaze upon his scars | F2 |
Leon Gellert
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