Apologia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IEIE JEJE KLML NOPO LQLQIs 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 Wilde
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