A Swinburnian Interlude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBBA CBCBDDDB EBEBEEEB FGFGAAAG BBBBEEEB| Short space shall be hereafter | A |
| Ere April brings the hour | A |
| Of weeping and of laughter | A |
| Of sunshine and of shower | A |
| Of groaning and of gladness | B |
| Of singing and of sadness | B |
| Of melody and madness | B |
| Of all sweet things and sour | A |
| - | |
| Sweet to the blithe bucolic | C |
| Who knows nor cribs nor crams | B |
| Who sees the frisky frolic | C |
| Of lanky little lambs | B |
| But sour beyond expression | D |
| To one in deep depression | D |
| Who sees the closing session | D |
| And imminent exams | B |
| - | |
| He cannot hear the singing | E |
| Of birds upon the bents | B |
| Nor watch the wildflowers springing | E |
| Nor smell the April scents | B |
| He gathers grief with grinding | E |
| Foul food of sorrow finding | E |
| In books of dreary binding | E |
| And drearier contents | B |
| - | |
| One hope alone sustains him | F |
| And no more hopes beside | G |
| One trust alone restrains him | F |
| From shocking suicide | G |
| He will not play nor palter | A |
| With hemlock or with halter | A |
| He will not fear nor falter | A |
| Whatever chance betide | G |
| - | |
| He knows examinations | B |
| Like all things else have ends | B |
| And then come vast vacations | B |
| And visits to his friends | B |
| And youth with pleasure yoking | E |
| And joyfulness and joking | E |
| And smilingness and smoking | E |
| For grief to make amends | B |
Robert Fuller Murray
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