Apologia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IEIE JEJE KLML NOPO LQLQ| Is it thy will that I should wax and wane | A |
| Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey | B |
| And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain | A |
| Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day | B |
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| Is it thy will Love that I love so well | C |
| That my Soul's House should be a tortured spot | D |
| Wherein like evil paramours must dwell | C |
| The quenchless flame the worm that dieth not | D |
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| Nay if it be thy will I shall endure | E |
| And sell ambition at the common mart | F |
| And let dull failure be my vestiture | E |
| And sorrow dig its grave within my heart | F |
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| Perchance it may be better so at least | G |
| I have not made my heart a heart of stone | H |
| Nor starved my boyhood of its goodly feast | G |
| Nor walked where Beauty is a thing unknown | H |
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| Many a man hath done so sought to fence | I |
| In straitened bonds the soul that should be free | E |
| Trodden the dusty road of common sense | I |
| While all the forest sang of liberty | E |
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| Not marking how the spotted hawk in flight | J |
| Passed on wide pinion through the lofty air | E |
| To where some steep untrodden mountain height | J |
| Caught the last tresses of the Sun God's hair | E |
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| Or how the little flower he trod upon | K |
| The daisy that white feathered shield of gold | L |
| Followed with wistful eyes the wandering sun | M |
| Content if once its leaves were aureoled | L |
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| But surely it is something to have been | N |
| The best beloved for a little while | O |
| To have walked hand in hand with Love and seen | P |
| His purple wings flit once across thy smile | O |
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| Ay though the gorged asp of passion feed | L |
| On my boy's heart yet have I burst the bars | Q |
| Stood face to face with Beauty known indeed | L |
| The Love which moves the Sun and all the stars | Q |
Oscar Fingal O'flahertie Wills Wilde
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