Consolation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD EFGHI JKBJA LBMNC OPAFQ RSJNT NUVWX YZAA2A B2C2D2E2F2 BG2MA2H2 FG2I2PA J2FFK2C ML2L2L2M2 NL2N2L2F2 O2AMAL2| Mist clogs the sunshine | A |
| Smoky dwarf houses | B |
| Hem me round everywhere | C |
| A vague dejection | A |
| Weighs down my soul | D |
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| Yet while I languish | E |
| Everywhere countless | F |
| Prospects unroll themselves | G |
| And countless beings | H |
| Pass countless moods | I |
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| Far hence in Asia | J |
| On the smooth convent roofs | K |
| On the gilt terraces | B |
| Of holy Lassa | J |
| Bright shines the sun | A |
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| Grey time worn marbles | L |
| Hold the pure Muses | B |
| In their cool gallery | M |
| By yellow Tiber | N |
| They still look fair | C |
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| Strange unloved uproar | O |
| Shrills round their portal | P |
| Yet not on Helicon | A |
| Kept they more cloudless | F |
| Their noble calm | Q |
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| Through sun proof alleys | R |
| In a lone sand hemmed | S |
| City of Africa | J |
| A blind led beggar | N |
| Age bowed asks alms | T |
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| No bolder robber | N |
| Erst abode ambushed | U |
| Deep in the sandy waste | V |
| No clearer eyesight | W |
| Spied prey afar | X |
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| Saharan sand winds | Y |
| Seared his keen eyeballs | Z |
| Spent is the spoil he won | A |
| For him the present | A2 |
| Holds only pain | A |
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| Two young fair lovers | B2 |
| Where the warm June wind | C2 |
| Fresh from the summer fields | D2 |
| Plays fondly round them | E2 |
| Stand tranced in joy | F2 |
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| With sweet joined voices | B |
| And with eyes brimming | G2 |
| Ah they cry Destiny | M |
| Prolong the present | A2 |
| Time stand still here | H2 |
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| The prompt stern Goddess | F |
| Shakes her head frowning | G2 |
| Time gives his hour glass | I2 |
| Its due reversal | P |
| Their hour is gone | A |
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| With weak indulgence | J2 |
| Did the just Goddess | F |
| Lengthen their happiness | F |
| She lengthened also | K2 |
| Distress elsewhere | C |
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| The hour whose happy | M |
| Unalloyed moments | L2 |
| I would eternalize | L2 |
| Ten thousand mourners | L2 |
| Well pleased see end | M2 |
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| The bleak stern hour | N |
| Whose severe moments | L2 |
| I would annihilate | N2 |
| Is passed by others | L2 |
| In warmth light joy | F2 |
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| Time so complained of | O2 |
| Who to no one man | A |
| Shows partiality | M |
| Brings round to all men | A |
| Some undimmed hours | L2 |
Matthew Arnold
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