Sullen Moods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHIH JK K LMLM NHHH OPOP QHQH| Love do not count your labour lost | A |
| Though I turn sullen grim retired | B |
| Even at your side my thought is crossed | A |
| With fancies by old longings fired | C |
| - | |
| And when I answer you some days | D |
| Vaguely and wildly do not fear | E |
| That my love walks forbidden ways | D |
| Breaking the ties that hold it here | F |
| - | |
| If I speak gruffly this mood is | G |
| Mere indignation at my own | H |
| Shortcomings plagues uncertainties | I |
| I forget the gentler tone | H |
| - | |
| 'You ' now that you have come to be | J |
| My one beginning prime and end | K |
| I count at last as wholly 'me ' | - |
| Lover no longer nor yet friend | K |
| - | |
| Friendship is flattery though close hid | L |
| Must I then flatter my own mind | M |
| And must which laws of shame forbid | L |
| Blind love of you make self love blind | M |
| - | |
| Do not repay me my own coin | N |
| The sharp rebuke the frown the groan | H |
| No stir my memory to disjoin | H |
| Your emanation from my own | H |
| - | |
| Help me to see you as before | O |
| When overwhelmed and dead almost | P |
| I stumbled on that secret door | O |
| Which saves the live man from the ghost | P |
| - | |
| Be once again the distant light | Q |
| Promise of glory not yet known | H |
| In full perfection wasted quite | Q |
| When on my imperfection thrown | H |
Robert Graves
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Sullen Moods poem by Robert Graves
Best Poems of Robert Graves