Lassitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLCMNOPQRS TLMSUVWOX| I will throw by my book The weariness | A |
| Of too much study presses on my brain | B |
| And thought's close fetter binds upon my brow | C |
| Like a distraction and I must give o'er | D |
| Morning hath seen me here and noon and eve | E |
| And midnight with its deep and solemn hush | F |
| Has look'd upon my labors and the dawn | G |
| With its sweet voices and its tempting breath | H |
| Has driven me to rest and I can bear | I |
| The burden of such weariness no more | J |
| I have foregone society and fled | K |
| From a sweet sister's fondness and from all | L |
| A home's alluring blandishments and now | C |
| When I am thirsting for them and my heart | M |
| Would leap at the approaches of their kind | N |
| And gentle offices they are not here | O |
| And I must feel that I am all alone | P |
| Oh for the fame of this forgetful world | Q |
| How much we suffer Were it all for this | R |
| Were nothing but the empty praise of men | S |
| The guerdon of this sedentary toil | T |
| Were this world's perishable honors all | L |
| I'd bound from its confinement as a hart | M |
| Leaps from its hunters but I know that when | S |
| My name shall be forgotten and my frame | U |
| Rests from its labors I shall find above | V |
| A work for the capacities I win | W |
| And as I discipline my spirit here | O |
| My lyre shall have a nobler sweep in Heaven | X |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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