Some Starlit Garden Grey With Dew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CADA EFEF GHGHSome starlit garden grey with dew | A |
Some chamber flushed with wine and fire | B |
What matters where so I and you | A |
Are worthy our desire | B |
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Behind a past that scolds and jeers | C |
For ungirt loins and lamps unlit | A |
In front the unmanageable years | D |
The trap upon the Pit | A |
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Think on the shame of dreams for deeds | E |
The scandal of unnatural strife | F |
The slur upon immortal needs | E |
The treason done to life | F |
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Arise no more a living lie | G |
And with me quicken and control | H |
Some memory that shall magnify | G |
The universal Soul | H |
William Ernest Henley
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