Mutability Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGF| We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon | A |
| How restlessly they speed and gleam and quiver | B |
| Streaking the darkness radiantly yet soon | A |
| Night closes round and they are lost for ever | B |
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| Or like forgotten lyres whose dissonant strings | C |
| Give various response to each varying blast | D |
| To whose frail frame no second motion brings | C |
| One mood or modulation like the last | D |
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| We rest A dream has power to poison sleep | E |
| We rise One wandering thought pollutes the day | F |
| We feel conceive or reason laugh or weep | E |
| Embrace fond woe or cast our cares away | F |
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| It is the same For be it joy or sorrow | G |
| The path of its departure still is free | H |
| Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow | G |
| Nought may endure but Mutablilty | F |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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