Weltschmertz Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF EEGG HIJJ GGKL MMGG NNOO PPBB EEQQ| You ask why I am sad to day | A |
| I have no cares no griefs you say | A |
| Ah yes 't is true I have no grief | B |
| But is there not the falling leaf | B |
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| The bare tree there is mourning left | C |
| With all of autumn's gray bereft | C |
| It is not what has happened me | D |
| Think of the bare dismantled tree | D |
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| The birds go South along the sky | E |
| I hear their lingering long good bye | E |
| Who goes reluctant from my breast | F |
| And yet the lone and wind swept nest | F |
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| The mourning pale flowered hearse goes by | E |
| Why does a tear come to my eye | E |
| Is it the March rain blowing wild | G |
| I have no dead I know no child | G |
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| I am no widow by the bier | H |
| Of him I held supremely dear | I |
| I have not seen the choicest one | J |
| Sink down as sinks the westering sun | J |
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| Faith unto faith have I beheld | G |
| For me few solemn notes have swelled | G |
| Love bekoned me out to the dawn | K |
| And happily I followed on | L |
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| And yet my heart goes out to them | M |
| Whose sorrow is their diadem | M |
| The falling leaf the crying bird | G |
| The voice to be all lost unheard | G |
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| Not mine not mine and yet too much | N |
| The thrilling power of human touch | N |
| While all the world looks on and scorns | O |
| I wear another's crown of thorns | O |
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| Count me a priest who understands | P |
| The glorious pain of nail pierced hands | P |
| Count me a comrade of the thief | B |
| Hot driven into late belief | B |
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| Oh mother's tear oh father's sigh | E |
| Oh mourning sweetheart's last good bye | E |
| I yet have known no mourning save | Q |
| Beside some brother's brother's grave | Q |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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