Farewell, Life! My Senses Swim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHHFarewell Life My senses swim | A |
And the world is growing dim | A |
Thronging shadows cloud the light | B |
Like the advent of the night | B |
Colder colder colder still | C |
Upward steals a vapor chill | C |
Strong the earthy odor grows | D |
I smell the mould above the rose | D |
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Welcome Life the Spirit strives | E |
Strength returns and hope revives | E |
Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn | F |
Fly like shadows at the morn | F |
O'er the earth there comes a bloom | G |
Sunny light for sullen gloom | G |
Warm perfume for vapor cold | H |
I smell the rose above the mould | H |
Thomas Hood
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