Vain Questioning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC CCFFGG HHII| What needest thou a few brief hours of rest | A |
| Wherein to seek thyself in thine own breast | A |
| A transient silence wherein truth could say | B |
| Such was thy constant hope and this thy way | B |
| O burden of life that is | C |
| A livelong tangle of perplexities | C |
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| What seekest thou a truce from that thou art | D |
| Some steadfast refuge from a fickle heart | D |
| Still to be thou and yet no thing of scorn | E |
| To find no stay here and yet not forlorn | E |
| O riddle of life that is | C |
| An endless war 'twixt contrarieties | C |
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| Leave this vain questioning Is not sweet the rose | C |
| Sings not the wild bird ere to rest he goes | C |
| Hath not in miracle brave June returned | F |
| Burns not her beauty as of old it burned | F |
| O foolish one to roam | G |
| So far in thine own mind away from home | G |
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| Where blooms the flower when her petals fade | H |
| Where sleepeth echo by earth's music made | H |
| Where all things transient to the changeless win | I |
| There waits the peace thy spirit dwelleth in | I |
Walter De La Mare
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