Despondency -- An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEEEFGEG HHIJJKLMLMFNON PPQRRQSTSTFBFF UUVWWVXUYZPA2EA2 B2B2C2D2D2C2A2E2A2F2 G2H2I2H2Oppress'd with grief oppress'd with care | A |
A burden more than I can bear | A |
I set me down and sigh | B |
O life thou art a galling load | C |
Along a rough a weary road | C |
To wretches such as I | B |
Dim backward as I cast my view | D |
What sick'ning scenes appear | E |
What sorrows yet may pierce me thro' | E |
Too justly I may fear | E |
Still caring despairing | F |
Must be my bitter doom | G |
My woes here shall close ne'er | E |
But with the closing tomb | G |
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Happy ye sons of busy life | H |
Who equal to the bustling strife | H |
No other view regard | I |
Ev'n when the wished end's denied | J |
Yet while the busy means are plied | J |
They bring their own reward | K |
Whilst I a hope abandon'd wight | L |
Unfitted with an aim | M |
Meet ev'ry sad returning night | L |
And joyless morn the same | M |
You bustling and justling | F |
Forget each grief and pain | N |
I listless yet restless | O |
Find every prospect vain | N |
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How blest the Solitary's lot | P |
Who all forgetting all forgot | P |
Within his humble cell | Q |
The cavern wild with tangling roots | R |
Sits o'er his newly gather'd fruits | R |
Beside his crystal well | Q |
Or haply to his ev'ning thought | S |
By unfrequented stream | T |
The ways of men are distant brought | S |
A faint collected dream | T |
While praising and raising | F |
His thoughts to heav'n on high | B |
As wand'ring meand'ring | F |
He views the solemn sky | F |
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Than I no lonely hermit plac'd | U |
Where never human footstep trac'd | U |
Less fit to play the part | V |
The lucky moment to improve | W |
And just to stop and just to move | W |
With self respecting art | V |
But ah those pleasures loves and joys | X |
Which I too keenly taste | U |
The Solitary can despise | Y |
Can want and yet be blest | Z |
He needs not he heeds not | P |
Or human love or hate | A2 |
Whilst I here must cry here | E |
At perfidy ingrate | A2 |
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Oh enviable early days | B2 |
When dancing thoughtless pleasure's maze | B2 |
To care to guilt unknown | C2 |
How ill exchang'd for riper times | D2 |
To feel the follies or the crimes | D2 |
Of others or my own | C2 |
Ye tiny elves that guiltless sport | A2 |
Like linnets in the bush | E2 |
Ye little know the ills ye court | A2 |
When manhood is your wish | F2 |
The losses the crosses | G2 |
That active man engage | H2 |
The fears all the tears all | I2 |
Of dim declining age | H2 |
Robert Burns
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