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 GodA
My beautiful God ApolloB
Wherever his footsteps trodA
My feet were wont to followB
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But Oh it fell out one dayC
My soul was so heavy with weepingD
That I laid me down by the wayC
And he left me while I was sleepingD
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And my soul awoke in the nightE
And I bowed my ear for his flutingD
And I heard but the breath of the flightE
Of wings and the night birds hootingD
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And night drank all her cupF
And I went to the shrine in the hollowB
And the voice of my cry went upF
' Apollo Apollo Apollo '-
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But he never came to the gateG
And the sun was hid in a mistH
And there came one walking lateG
And I knew it was ChristI
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He took my soul and bound itJ
With cords of iron wireK
Seven times round He wound itJ
With the cords of my desireK
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The cords of my desireK
While my desire sleptL
Were seven bands of wireK
To bind my soul that weptL
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And He hid my soul at lastM
In a place of stones and earsN
Where the hours like days went pastM
And the days went by like yearsN
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And after many daysO
That which had slept awokeD
And desire burnt in a blazeO
And my soul went up in the smokeD
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And we crept away from the placeP
And would not look behindQ
And the angel that hides his faceP
Was crouched on the neck of the windQ
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And I went to the shrine in the hollowB
Where the lutes and the flutes were playingD
And cried ' I am come ApolloB
Back to thy shrine from my straying '-
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But he would have none of my soulR
That was stained with blood and with tearsS
That had lain in the earth like a moleR
In the place of great stones and fearsN
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And now I am lost in the mistH
Of the things that can never beT
For I will have none of ChristI
And Apollo will none of meT

Lord Alfred Douglas



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