Despondency Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDC EFAGF HIJJI KLMMN OPQQP RSTTS LPUUP VWXXW YZHHZ| A Response to Courage by Celia Thaxter | A |
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| You have said that there is not a fear | B |
| Or a doubt that oppresses your soul | C |
| That your faith is so strong | D |
| That it bears you along | D |
| Ever holding you in its control | C |
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| 'Tis a comfort to know there is one | E |
| Whose allegiance cannot be denied | F |
| But I fain would enquire | A |
| For your faith is far high'r | G |
| Than is mine Have you ever been tried | F |
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| Have you sought to aspire to a life | H |
| Higher far than the one that is past | I |
| Have you laboured through years | J |
| By your hopes crushing fears | J |
| But to meet disappointment at last | I |
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| Have the friends who should love you the best | K |
| In your absence forgotten that love | L |
| And refused to impart | M |
| To your grief stricken heart | M |
| All the solace their kindness would prove | N |
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| Has the world misconstrued your intents | O |
| And endeavoured to sully your fame | P |
| Has the venomous tongue | Q |
| With its calumny stung | Q |
| Your proud heart and dishonoured your name | P |
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| I desire not to chide you nor vex | R |
| But I ask you to answer me now | S |
| Did the torturing pain | T |
| Of a love that is vain | T |
| Ever furrow your heart like a plough | S |
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| Have you loved with so fervent a love | L |
| That when failure and hopelessness came | P |
| All the torments of hell | U |
| In your breast seemed to dwell | U |
| Scorching courage and faith in their flame | P |
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| One of these may have fall'n to your lot | V |
| What if all were apportioned to me | W |
| Could I then lift my head | X |
| Nor a single tear shed | X |
| Has such faith been allotted to thee | W |
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| I have sought to be true to my God | Y |
| I have sought to be faithful as you | Z |
| But such tumult and strife | H |
| Have embittered my life | H |
| That I am not so faultlessly true | Z |
Wilfred S. Skeats
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