"The Uncharmed" by Thomas Wade
By: Halie Huffman, Kelsey Daughtridge, Darrin Simpkins
"The Uncharmed" by Thomas Wade
For, suddenly, the veil of beauty thrown
By glorifying youth over sweet to-morrow
Fell, and disclosed to me the future's frown;
Within the wrinkles of whose unread brow
There was a lurking something which till then
I dreamed not hung before the lives of men,
Ready to fall upon them as they grow
Into the longer knowledge of brief years:
Blank vacancy; and doubt; and strangled tears
That never reach the eyelids; vanishing
Of all sweet things we love; death-beds; and graves;
And shadowy wrecks, where pale hopes trembling cling,
Heart-faint, and stifled by continual waves!
Description Of Sonnet
Tone
Figurative Language
1) "Within the wrinkles of whose unread brow" This is an example of a somewhat alliteration.
This sonnet did not contain many examples of figurative language.
Rhyme Scheme
sorrow A
thrown B
to-morrow A
frown; C
brow D
then E
men, E
grow F
years: G
tears G
vanishing H
graves; I
cling, H
waves! I