Under A Stagnant Sky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO PQRKSTUVWXQ YZA2B2

Under a stagnant skyA
Gloom out of gloom uncoiling into gloomB
The River jaded and forlornC
Welters and wanders wearily wretchedly onD
Yet in and out among the ribsE
Of the old skeleton bridge as in the pilesF
Of some dead lake built city full of skullsG
Worm worn rat riddled mouldy with memoriesH
Lingers to babble to a broken tuneI
Once O the unvoiced music of my heartJ
So melancholy a soliloquyK
It sounds as it might tellL
The secret of the unending grief in grainM
The terror of Time and Change and DeathN
That wastes this floating transitory worldO
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What of the incantationP
That forced the huddled shapes on yonder shoreQ
To take and wear the nightR
Like a material majestyK
That touched the shafts of wavering fireS
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 evermoreQ
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O Death O Change O TimeY
Without you O the insuperable eyesZ
Of these poor Might Have BeensA2
These fatuous ineffectual YesterdaysB2

William Ernest Henley



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