De Profundis - Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDE FFDE GGHE IIDE| Considerabam ad dexteram et videbam et non erat qui cognosceret me | A |
| Non est qui requirat animam meam Ps cxli | B |
| - | |
| When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong | C |
| That things are all as they best may be save a few to be right ere long | C |
| And my eyes have not the vision in them to discern what to these is so clear | D |
| The blot seems straightway in me alone one better he were not here | E |
| - | |
| The stout upstanders say All's well with us ruers have nought to rue | F |
| And what the potent say so oft can it fail to be somewhat true | F |
| Breezily go they breezily come their dust smokes around their career | D |
| Till I think I am one horn out of due time who has no calling here | E |
| - | |
| Their dawns bring lusty joys it seems their eves exultance sweet | G |
| Our times are blessed times they cry Life shapes it as is most meet | G |
| And nothing is much the matter there are many smiles to a tear | H |
| Then what is the matter is I I say Why should such an one be here | E |
| - | |
| - | |
| Let him to whose ears the low voiced Best seems stilled by the clash of the First | I |
| Who holds that if way to the Better there be it exacts a full look at the Worst | I |
| Who feels that delight is a delicate growth cramped by crookedness custom and fear | D |
| Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry he disturbs the order here | E |
| - | |
| - |
Thomas Hardy
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about De Profundis - Ii poem by Thomas Hardy
Best Poems of Thomas Hardy