Stanzas Written In Dejection, Near Naples Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCECEE AFGFGGGGGG AHIHIIJIJJ KLMLDDNDNN NOGOGGPGPP| I | A |
| The sun is warm the sky is clear | B |
| The waves are dancing fast and bright | C |
| Blue isles and snowy mountains wear | D |
| The purple noon's transparent might | C |
| The breath of the moist earth is light | C |
| Around its unexpanded buds | E |
| Like many a voice of one delight | C |
| The winds the birds the ocean floods | E |
| The city's voice itself is soft like Solitude's | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| I see the deep's untrampled floor | F |
| With green and purple seaweeds strown | G |
| I see the waves upon the shore | F |
| Like light dissolved in star showers thrown | G |
| I sit upon the sands alone | G |
| The lightning of the noontide ocean | G |
| Is flashing round me and a tone | G |
| Arises from its measured motion | G |
| How sweet did any heart now share in my emotion | G |
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| III | A |
| Alas I have nor hope nor health | H |
| Nor peace within nor calm around | I |
| Nor that content surpassing wealth | H |
| The sage in meditation found | I |
| And walked with inward glory crowned | I |
| Nor fame nor power nor love nor leisure | J |
| Others I see whom these surround | I |
| Smiling they live and call life pleasure | J |
| To me that cup has been dealt in another measure | J |
| - | |
| IV | K |
| Yet now despair itself is mild | L |
| Even as the winds and waters are | M |
| I could lie down like a tired child | L |
| And weep away the life of care | D |
| Which I have born and yet must bear | D |
| Till death like sleep might steal on me | N |
| And I might feel in the warm air | D |
| My cheek grow cold and hear the sea | N |
| Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony | N |
| - | |
| V | N |
| Some might lament that I were cold | O |
| As I when this sweet day is gone | G |
| Which my lost heart too soon grown old | O |
| Insults with this untimely moan | G |
| They might lament for I am one | G |
| Whom men love not and yet regret | P |
| Unlike this day which when the sun | G |
| Shall on its stainless glory set | P |
| Will linger though enjoyed like joy in memory yet | P |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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