O Dull Cold Northern Sky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IEEI CJJC| O DULL cold northern sky | A |
| O brawling sabbath bells | B |
| O feebly twittering Autumn bird that tells | B |
| The year is like to die | A |
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| O still spoiled trees O city ways | C |
| O sun desired in vain | D |
| O dread presentiment of coming rain | D |
| That cloys the sullen days | C |
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| Thee heart of mine I greet | E |
| In what hard mountain pass | F |
| Striv'st thou In what importunate morass | F |
| Sink now thy weary feet | E |
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| Thou run'st a hopeless race | G |
| To win despair No crown | H |
| Awaits success but leaden gods look down | H |
| On thee with evil face | G |
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| And those that would befriend | I |
| And cherish thy defeat | E |
| With angry welcome shall turn sour the sweet | E |
| Home coming of the end | I |
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| Yea those that offer praise | C |
| To idleness shall yet | J |
| Insult thee coming glorious in the sweat | J |
| Of honourable ways | C |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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