Ennui Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFDFE GHIHJKJJLJ MNMGFJJFJJ| Alas and oh that Spring should come again | A |
| Upon the soft wings of desired days | B |
| And bring with her no anodyne to pain | C |
| And no discernment of untroubled ways | B |
| There was a time when her yet distant feet | D |
| Guessed by some prescience more than half divine | E |
| Gave to my listening ear such happy warning | F |
| That fresh serene and sweet | D |
| My thoughts soared up like larks into the morning | F |
| From the dew sprinkled meadows crystalline | E |
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| Soared up into the heights celestial | G |
| And saw the whole world like a ball of fire | H |
| Fashioned to be a monster playing ball | I |
| For the enchantment of my young desire | H |
| And yesterday they flew to this black cloud | J |
| Missing the way to those ethereal spheres | K |
| And saw the earth a vision of affright | J |
| And men a sordid crowd | J |
| And felt the fears and drank the bitter tears | L |
| And saw the empty houses of Delight | J |
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| The sun has sunk into a moonless sea | M |
| And every road leads down from Heaven to Hell | N |
| The pearls are numbered on youth's rosary | M |
| I have outlived the days desirable | G |
| What is there left And how shall dead men sing | F |
| Unto the loosened strings of Love and Hate | J |
| Or take strong hands to Beauty's ravishment | J |
| Who shall devise this thing | F |
| To give high utterance to Miscontent | J |
| Or make indifference articulate | J |
Lord Alfred Douglas
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