A Dirge.
Walter R Cassels 1826 (London, ) – 1907 (London)
Winds are sighing round the drooping eaves;
Sadly float the midnight hours away;
Dun and grey athwart the ivy-leaves,
Fall the first pale chilly tints of day,
Ah me! the weary, weary tints of day.
Soon the darkness will be past and gone;
Soon the silence spread its noiseless wing;
Sleep will strike its tent and hurry on;
Life commence its weary wandering,
Ah me! its weary, weary wandering.
Not the sighing of my lonely heart,
Not the heavy grief-clouds hanging o'er,
Not its silence can with night depart:
Gloom hangs o'er it ever, evermore,
Ah me! darkness ever, evermore.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABABB XCXCC DXDEE |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
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