Despair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDD EDEDFGFGG HIHIJKJKK LMLMNONPO| And canst thou mock mine agony thus calm | A |
| In cloudless radiance Queen of silver night | B |
| Can you ye flow'rets spread your perfumed balm | A |
| Mid pearly gems of dew that shine so bright | B |
| And you wild winds thus can you sleep so still | C |
| Whilst throbs the tempest of my breast so high | D |
| Can the fierce night fiends rest on yonder hill | C |
| And in the eternal mansions of the sky | D |
| Can the directors of the storm in powerless silence lie | D |
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| Hark I hear music on the zephyr s wing | E |
| Louder it floats along the unruffled sky | D |
| Some fairy sure has touched the viewless string | E |
| Now faint in distant air the murmurs die | D |
| Awhile it stills the tide of agony | F |
| Now now it loftier swells again stern woe | G |
| Arises with the awakening melody | F |
| Again fierce torments such as demons know | G |
| In bitterer feller tide on this torn bosom flow | G |
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| Arise ye sightless spirits of the storm | H |
| Ye unseen minstrels of the aereal song | I |
| Pour the fierce tide around this lonely form | H |
| And roll the tempest's wildest swell along | I |
| Dart the red lightning wing the forked flash | J |
| Pour from thy cloud formed hills the thunder s roar | K |
| Arouse the whirlwind and let ocean dash | J |
| In fiercest tumult on the rocking shore | K |
| Destroy this life or let earth's fabric be no more | K |
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| Yes every tie that links me here is dead | L |
| Mysterious Fate thy mandate I obey | M |
| Since hope and peace and joy for aye are fled | L |
| I come terrific power I come away | M |
| Then o'er this ruined soul let spirits of Hell | N |
| In triumph laughing wildly mock its pain | O |
| And though with direst pangs mine heart strings swell | N |
| I ll echo back their deadly yells again | P |
| Cursing the power that ne er made aught in vain | O |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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