The Earthly Paradise: Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDD EFEFFDD GHGIHDD JKJKKKK ALALLKK MINIIKK| Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing | A |
| I cannot ease the burden of your fears | B |
| Or make quick coming death a little thing | A |
| Or bring again the pleasure of past years | B |
| Nor for my words shall ye forget your tears | C |
| Or hope again for aught that I can say | D |
| The idle singer of an empty day | D |
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| But rather when aweary of your mirth | E |
| From full hearts still unsatisfied ye sigh | F |
| And feeling kindly unto all the earth | E |
| Grudge every minute as it passes by | F |
| Made the more mindful that the sweet days die | F |
| Remember me a little then I pray | D |
| The idle singer of an empty day | D |
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| The heavy trouble the bewildering care | G |
| That weighs us down who live and earn our bread | H |
| These idle verses have no power to bear | G |
| So let em sing of names remember e d | I |
| Because they living not can ne'er be dead | H |
| Or long time take their memory quite away | D |
| From us poor singers of an empty day | D |
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| Dreamer of dreams born out of my due time | J |
| Why should I strive to set the crooked straight | K |
| Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme | J |
| Beats with light wing against the ivory gate | K |
| Telling a tale not too importunate | K |
| To those who in the sleepy region stay | K |
| Lulled by the singer of an empty day | K |
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| Folk say a wizard to a northern king | A |
| At Christmas tide such wondrous things did show | L |
| That through one window men beheld the spring | A |
| And through another saw the summer glow | L |
| And through a third the fruited vines a row | L |
| While still unheard but in its wonted way | K |
| Piped the drear wind of that December day | K |
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| So with this Earthly Paradise it is | M |
| If ye will read aright and pardon me | I |
| Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss | N |
| Midmost the beating of the steely sea | I |
| Where tossed about all hearts of men must be | I |
| Whose ravening monsters mighty men shall slay | K |
| Not the poor singer of an empty day | K |
William Morris
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