Melancholia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDD EFFGFHH IJJKJLL MNNONDD MPQRPHH STTUTVV SWWXWDD MYYZYDD| Silently without my window | A |
| Tapping gently at the pane | B |
| Falls the rain | B |
| Through the trees sighs the breeze | C |
| Like a soul in pain | B |
| Here alone I sit and weep | D |
| Thought hath banished sleep | D |
| - | |
| Wearily I sit and listen | E |
| To the water's ceaseless drip | F |
| To my lip | F |
| Fate turns up the bitter cup | G |
| Forcing me to sip | F |
| 'T is a bitter bitter drink | H |
| Thus I sit and think | H |
| - | |
| Thinking things unknown and awful | I |
| Thoughts on wild uncanny themes | J |
| Waking dreams | J |
| Spectres dark corpses stark | K |
| Show the gaping seams | J |
| Whence the cold and cruel knife | L |
| Stole away their life | L |
| - | |
| Bloodshot eyes all strained and staring | M |
| Gazing ghastly into mine | N |
| Blood like wine | N |
| On the brow clotted now | O |
| Shows death's dreadful sign | N |
| Lonely vigil still I keep | D |
| Would that I might sleep | D |
| - | |
| Still oh still my brain is whirling | M |
| Still runs on my stream of thought | P |
| I am caught | Q |
| In the net fate hath set | R |
| Mind and soul are brought | P |
| To destruction's very brink | H |
| Yet I can but think | H |
| - | |
| Eyes that look into the future | S |
| Peeping forth from out my mind | T |
| They will find | T |
| Some new weight soon or late | U |
| On my soul to bind | T |
| Crushing all its courage out | V |
| Heavier than doubt | V |
| - | |
| Dawn the Eastern monarch's daughter | S |
| Rising from her dewy bed | W |
| Lays her head | W |
| 'Gainst the clouds' sombre shrouds | X |
| Now half fringed with red | W |
| O'er the land she 'gins to peep | D |
| Come O gentle Sleep | D |
| - | |
| Hark the morning cock is crowing | M |
| Dreams like ghosts must hie away | Y |
| 'Tis the day | Y |
| Rosy morn now is born | Z |
| Dark thoughts may not stay | Y |
| Day my brain from foes will keep | D |
| Now my soul I sleep | D |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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