Under A Stagnant Sky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO PQRKSTUVWXQ YZA2B2Under 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 |
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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 |
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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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