Error And Loss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDD EFEFGHI JKJLKMM NENEEOO PQPQQRR| Upon an eve I sat me down and wept | A |
| Because the world to me seemed nowise good | B |
| Still autumn was it the meadows slept | A |
| The misty hills dreamed and the silent wood | B |
| Seemed listening to the sorrow of my mood | C |
| I knew not if the earth with me did grieve | D |
| Or if it mocked my grief that bitter eve | D |
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| Then twixt my tears a maiden did I see | E |
| Who drew anigh me on the leaf strewn grass | F |
| Then stood and gazed upon me pitifully | E |
| With grief worn eyes until my woe did pass | F |
| From me to her and tearless now I was | G |
| And she mid tears was asking me of one | H |
| She long had sought unaided and alone | I |
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| I knew not of him and she turned away | J |
| Into the dark wood and my own great pain | K |
| Still held me there till dark had slain the day | J |
| And perished at the grey dawn s hand again | L |
| Then from the wood a voice cried Ah in vain | K |
| In vain I seek thee O thou bitter sweet | M |
| In what lone land are set thy longed for feet | M |
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| Then I looked up and lo a man there came | N |
| From midst the trees and stood regarding me | E |
| Until my tears were dried for very shame | N |
| Then he cried out O mourner where is she | E |
| Whom I have sought o er every land and sea | E |
| I love her and she loveth me and still | O |
| We meet no more than green hill meeteth hill | O |
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| With that he passed on sadly and I knew | P |
| That these had met and missed in the dark night | Q |
| Blinded by blindness of the world untrue | P |
| That hideth love and maketh wrong of right | Q |
| Then midst my pity for their lost delight | Q |
| Yet more with barren longing I grew weak | R |
| Yet more I mourned that I had none to seek | R |
William Morris
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