Sonnet - On An Old Book With Uncut Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBC DEDEFF| Emblem 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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