Rejected Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDED FBF GHGI JKJK KLKL MNMN ODOD PQPQ BDB RSRN HTIT| Alas I have lost my God | A |
| My beautiful God Apollo | B |
| Wherever his footsteps trod | A |
| My feet were wont to follow | B |
| - | |
| But Oh it fell out one day | C |
| My soul was so heavy with weeping | D |
| That I laid me down by the way | C |
| And he left me while I was sleeping | D |
| - | |
| And my soul awoke in the night | E |
| And I bowed my ear for his fluting | D |
| And I heard but the breath of the flight | E |
| Of wings and the night birds hooting | D |
| - | |
| And night drank all her cup | F |
| And I went to the shrine in the hollow | B |
| And the voice of my cry went up | F |
| ' Apollo Apollo Apollo ' | - |
| - | |
| But he never came to the gate | G |
| And the sun was hid in a mist | H |
| And there came one walking late | G |
| And I knew it was Christ | I |
| - | |
| He took my soul and bound it | J |
| With cords of iron wire | K |
| Seven times round He wound it | J |
| With the cords of my desire | K |
| - | |
| The cords of my desire | K |
| While my desire slept | L |
| Were seven bands of wire | K |
| To bind my soul that wept | L |
| - | |
| And He hid my soul at last | M |
| In a place of stones and ears | N |
| Where the hours like days went past | M |
| And the days went by like years | N |
| - | |
| And after many days | O |
| That which had slept awoke | D |
| And desire burnt in a blaze | O |
| And my soul went up in the smoke | D |
| - | |
| And we crept away from the place | P |
| And would not look behind | Q |
| And the angel that hides his face | P |
| Was crouched on the neck of the wind | Q |
| - | |
| And I went to the shrine in the hollow | B |
| Where the lutes and the flutes were playing | D |
| And cried ' I am come Apollo | B |
| Back to thy shrine from my straying ' | - |
| - | |
| But he would have none of my soul | R |
| That was stained with blood and with tears | S |
| That had lain in the earth like a mole | R |
| In the place of great stones and fears | N |
| - | |
| And now I am lost in the mist | H |
| Of the things that can never be | T |
| For I will have none of Christ | I |
| And Apollo will none of me | T |
Lord Alfred Douglas
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