Melancholia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHH| The sickness of desire that in dark days | A |
| Looks on the imagination of despair | B |
| Forgetteth man and stinteth God his praise | A |
| Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care | B |
| Incertainty that once gave scope to dream | C |
| Of laughing enterprise and glory untold | D |
| Is now a blackness that no stars redeem | C |
| A wall of terror in a night of cold | D |
| Fool thou that hast impossibly desired | E |
| And now impatiently despairest see | F |
| How nought is changed Joy's wisdom is attired | G |
| Splendid for others' eyes if not for thee | F |
| Not love or beauty or youth from earth is fled | H |
| If they delite thee not 'tis thou art dead | H |
Robert Seymour Bridges
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