Poet William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley

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Rhymes And Rhythms - Xiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOP QRSLATUVWXY ZA2B2C2

To James McNeill WhistlerA
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Under a stagnant skyB
Gloom out of gloom uncoiling into gloomC
The River jaded and forlornD
Welters and wanders wearily wretchedly onE
Yet in and out among the ribsF
Of the old skeleton bridge as in the pilesG
Of some dead lake built city fall of skullsH
Worm worn rat riddled mouldy with memoriesI
Lingers to babble to a broken tuneJ
Once O the unvoiced music of my heartK
So melancholy a soliloquyL
It sounds as it might tellM
The secret of the unending grief in grainN
The terror of Time and Change and DeathO
That wastes this floating transitory worldP
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What of the incantationQ
That forced the huddled shapes on yonder shortR
To take and wear the nightS
Like a material majestyL
That touched the shafts of wavering fireA
About this miserable welter and washT
River O River of Journeys River of DreamsU
Into long shining signals from the panesV
Of an enchanted pleasure houseW
Where life and life might live life lost in lifeX
For ever and evermoreY
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O Death O Change O TimeZ
Without you O the insufferable eyesA2
Of these poor Might Have BeensB2
These fatuous ineffectual YesterdaysC2

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