To James Mcneill Whistler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO PQRKSTUVWXQ YZA2B2| Under a stagnant sky | A |
| Gloom out of gloom uncoiling into gloom | B |
| The River jaded and forlorn | C |
| Welters and wanders wearily wretchedly on | D |
| Yet in and out among the ribs | E |
| Of the old skeleton bridge as in the piles | F |
| Of some dead lake built city full of skulls | G |
| Worm worn rat riddled mouldy with memories | H |
| Lingers to babble to a broken tune | I |
| Once O the unvoiced music of my heart | J |
| So melancholy a soliloquy | K |
| It sounds as it might tell | L |
| The secret of the unending grief in grain | M |
| The terror of Time and Change and Death | N |
| That wastes this floating transitory world | O |
| - | |
| What of the incantation | P |
| That forced the huddled shapes on yonder shore | Q |
| To take and wear the night | R |
| Like a material majesty | K |
| That touched the shafts of wavering fire | S |
| About this miserable welter and wash | T |
| River O River of Journeys River of Dreams | U |
| Into long shining signals from the panes | V |
| Of an enchanted pleasure house | W |
| Where life and life might live life lost in life | X |
| For ever and evermore | Q |
| - | |
| O Death O Change O Time | Y |
| Without you O the insuperable eyes | Z |
| Of these poor Might Have Beens | A2 |
| These fatuous ineffectual Yesterdays | B2 |
William Ernest Henley
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