Sonnets -- I - Desponding Father! Mark This Altered Bough, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACDEDEDE| Desponding Father mark this altered bough | A |
| So beautiful of late with sunshine warmed | B |
| Or moist with dews what more unsightly now | A |
| Its blossoms shriveled and its fruit if formed | B |
| Invisible yet Spring her genial brow | A |
| Knits not o'er that discolouring and decay | C |
| As false to expectation Nor fret thou | A |
| At like unlovely process in the May | C |
| Of human life a Stripling's graces blow | D |
| Fade and are shed that from their timely fall | E |
| Misdeem it not a cankerous change may grow | D |
| Rich mellow bearings that for thanks shall call | E |
| In all men sinful is it to be slow | D |
| To hope in Parents sinful above all | E |
William Wordsworth
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