De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC CDEC FGHF IJJI KLLK JMMJ NFFNC A F OPQPCRS TTTQRS UVUQS WXYXCRZSC A BC A2BCA2A2A2B AZZA B2ZZC2 A2KQQK D2BOE2KF2A2BI | A |
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Percussus sum sicut foenum et aruit cor meum | B |
Ps ci | C |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Wintertime nighs | C |
But my bereavement pain | D |
It cannot bring again | E |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Twice no one dies | C |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Flower petals flee | F |
But since it once hath been | G |
No more that severing scene | H |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Can harrow me | F |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Birds faint in dread | I |
I shall not lose old strength | J |
In the lone frost's black length | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Strength long since fled | I |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Leaves freeze to dun | K |
But friends can not turn cold | L |
This season as of old | L |
nbsp nbsp nbsp For him with none | K |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Tempests may scath | J |
But love can not make smart | M |
Again this year his heart | M |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Who no heart hath | J |
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nbsp nbsp nbsp Black is night's cope | N |
But death will not appal | F |
One who past doubtings all | F |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Waits in unhope | N |
De Profundis | C |
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II | A |
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Considerabam ad dexteram et videbam et non erat qui cognosceret me | F |
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When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and | O |
strong | P |
That things are all as they best may be save a few to be right ere | Q |
long | P |
And my eyes have not the vision in them to discern what to these is | C |
so clear | R |
The blot seems straightway in me alone one better he were not here | S |
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The stout upstanders say All's well with us ruers have nought to | T |
rue | T |
And what the potent say so oft can it fail to be somewhat true | T |
Breezily go they breezily come their dust smokes around their | Q |
career | R |
Till I think I am one horn out of due time who has no calling here | S |
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Their dawns bring lusty joys it seems their eves exultance sweet | U |
Our times are blessed times they cry Life shapes it as is most | V |
meet | U |
And nothing is much the matter there are many smiles to a tear | Q |
Then what is the matter is I I say Why should such an one be here | S |
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Let him to whose ears the low voiced Best seems stilled by the clash | W |
of the First | X |
Who holds that if way to the Better there be it exacts a full look | Y |
at the Worst | X |
Who feels that delight is a delicate growth cramped by crookedness | C |
custom and fear | R |
Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry he disturbs the order | Z |
here | S |
De Profundis | C |
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III | A |
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Heu mihi quia incolatus meus prolongatus est Habitavi cum | B |
habitantibus Cedar multum incola fuit aninia mea Ps cxix | C |
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There have been times when I well might have passed and the ending | A2 |
have come | B |
Points in my path when the dark might have stolen on me artless | C |
unrueing | A2 |
Ere I had learnt that the world was a welter of futile doing | A2 |
Such had been times when I well might have passed and the ending | A2 |
have come | B |
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Say on the noon when the half sunny hours told that April was nigh | A |
And I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus border | Z |
Fashioned and furbished the soil into a summer seeming order | Z |
Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby | A |
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Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood | B2 |
She who upheld me and I in the midmost of Egdon together | Z |
Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather | Z |
Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued | C2 |
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Or on that winter wild night when reclined by the chimney nook | A2 |
quoin | K |
Slowly a drowse overgat me the smallest and feeblest of folk there | Q |
Weak from my baptism of pain when at times and anon I awoke there | Q |
Heard of a world wheeling on with no listing or longing to join | K |
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Even then while unweeting that vision could vex or that knowledge | D2 |
could numb | B |
That sweets to the mouth in the belly are bitter and tart and | O |
untoward | E2 |
Then on some dim coloured scene should my briefly raised curtain | K |
have lowered | F2 |
Then might the Voice that is law have said Cease and the ending | A2 |
have come | B |
Thomas Hardy
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