Sonnet On An Old Book With Uncut Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBC DEDEFFEmblem of blasted hope and lost desire | A |
No finger ever traced thy yellow page | B |
Save Time's Thou hast not wrought to noble rage | B |
The hearts thou wouldst have stirred Not any fire | A |
Save sad flames set to light a funeral pyre | A |
Dost thou suggest Nay impotent in age | B |
Unsought thou holdst a corner of the stage | B |
And ceasest even dumbly to aspire | C |
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How different was the thought of him that writ | D |
What promised he to love of ease and wealth | E |
When men should read and kindle at his wit | D |
But here decay eats up the book by stealth | E |
While it like some old maiden solemnly | F |
Hugs its incongruous virginity | F |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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