Depression Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAC DDEFFE CCGCCH DDIJJIAll the striving all the failing | A |
To the silent Nothing sailing | A |
Swiftly swiftly passing by | B |
For the land of shadows leaving | A |
Where a wistful hand is weaving | A |
Thy still woof Eternity | C |
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Gloomy thoughts in me awaken | D |
And with fear my breast is shaken | D |
Thinking O thou black abyss | E |
All the toil and thrift of life | F |
All the struggle and the strife | F |
Shall it come at last to this | E |
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With the grave shall be requited | C |
Good and evil and united | C |
Ne'er to separate again | G |
What the light hath parted purely | C |
Shall the darkness join more surely | C |
Was the vict'ry won in vain | H |
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O mute and infinite extension | D |
O time beyond our comprehension | D |
Shall thought and deed ungarnered fall | I |
Ev'rything dost take and slay | J |
Ev'rything dost bear away | J |
Silent Nothing silent All | I |
Morris Rosenfeld
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