Ophelia

Ophelia is a thirty-line poem about a person searching for his beloved, and finding her too late. The final imagery is that of her drowned, so this poem may not be suitable for a young audience.

There are six stanzas. Each stanza, has five lines. This poem does contain a systematic rhyme experiment - each stanza has a differing rhyme scheme, as follows: stanza 1: A,B,C,B,D; stanza 2: A,A,A,A,D; stanza 3: A,B,B,A,D; stanza 4: A,A,B,C,D; stanza 5: A,B,A,C,D; stanza 6: A,B,A,B,D. "D" is the fi...