Despair. Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GEGE HIHI JKJK EAEA L| Ask not the pallid stranger's woe | A |
| With beating heart and throbbing breast | B |
| Whose step is faltering weak and slow | A |
| As though the body needed rest | B |
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| Whose 'wildered eye no object meets | C |
| Nor cares to ken a friendly glance | D |
| With silent grief his bosom beats | C |
| Now fixed as in a deathlike trance | D |
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| Who looks around with fearful eye | E |
| And shuns all converse with man kind | F |
| As though some one his griefs might spy | E |
| And soothe them with a kindred mind | F |
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| A friend or foe to him the same | G |
| He looks on each with equal eye | E |
| The difference lies but in the name | G |
| To none for comfort can he fly | E |
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| 'Twas deep despair and sorrow's trace | H |
| To him too keenly given | I |
| Whose memory time could not efface | H |
| His peace was lodged in Heaven | I |
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| He looks on all this world bestows | J |
| The pride and pomp of power | K |
| As trifles best for pageant shows | J |
| Which vanish in an hour | K |
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| When torn is dear affection's tie | E |
| Sinks the soft heart full low | A |
| It leaves without a parting sigh | E |
| All that these realms bestow | A |
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| JUNE | L |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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