Despondency -- An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEEEFGEG HHIJJKLMLMFNON PPQRRQSTSTFBFF UUVWWVXUYZPA2EA2 B2B2C2D2D2C2A2E2A2F2 G2H2I2H2| Oppress'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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