The Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHICJKLMNOPQR STU NVJWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F2G 2H2D2I2J2K2NL2 M2NNN2O2 N| There late was One within whose subtle being | A |
| As light and wind within some delicate cloud | B |
| That fades amid the blue noon's burning sky | C |
| Genius and death contended None may know | D |
| The sweetness of the joy which made his breath | E |
| Fail like the trances of the summer air | F |
| When with the Lady of his love who then | G |
| First knew the unreserve of mingled being | A |
| He walked along the pathway of a field | H |
| Which to the east a hoar wood shadowed o'er | I |
| But to the west was open to the sky | C |
| There now the sun had sunk but lines of gold | J |
| Hung on the ashen clouds and on the points | K |
| Of the far level grass and nodding flowers | L |
| And the old dandelion's hoary beard | M |
| And mingled with the shades of twilight lay | N |
| On the brown massy woods and in the east | O |
| The broad and burning moon lingeringly rose | P |
| Between the black trunks of the crowded trees | Q |
| While the faint stars were gathering overhead | R |
| 'Is it not strange Isabel ' said the youth | S |
| 'I never saw the sun We will walk here | T |
| To morrow thou shalt look on it with me ' | U |
| - | |
| That night the youth and lady mingled lay | N |
| In love and sleep but when the morning came | V |
| The lady found her lover dead and cold | J |
| Let none believe that God in mercy gave | W |
| That stroke The lady died not nor grew wild | X |
| But year by year lived on in truth I think | Y |
| Her gentleness and patience and sad smiles | Z |
| And that she did not die but lived to tend | A2 |
| Her ag d father were a kind of madness | B2 |
| If madness 'tis to be unlike the world | C2 |
| For but to see her were to read the tale | D2 |
| Woven by some subtlest bard to make hard hearts | E2 |
| Dissolve away in wisdom working grief | F2 |
| Her eyes were black and lustreless and wan | G2 |
| Her eyelashes were worn away with tears | H2 |
| Her lips and cheeks were like things dead so pale | D2 |
| Her hands were thin and through their wandering veins | I2 |
| And weak articulations might be seen | J2 |
| Day's ruddy light The tomb of thy dead self | K2 |
| Which one vexed ghost inhabits night and day | N |
| Is all lost child that now remains of thee | L2 |
| - | |
| 'Inheritor of more than earth can give | M2 |
| Passionless calm and silence unreproved | N |
| Whether the dead find oh not sleep but rest | N |
| And are the uncomplaining things they seem | N2 |
| Or live or drop in the deep sea of Love | O2 |
| Oh that like thine mine epitaph were Peace ' | - |
| This was the only moan she ever made | N |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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