When in the dreary hour of decline

[adonais]

heh...your first few lines of rumination remind me of When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be by Keats. 

Yep, you know your Keats.

I was very inspired by that poem and was trying to achieve a similar kind of rhythm. I don't remember how long I spent on this one, it is actually several years old; I was reminded of my old sonneteering days from your replies in your other thread. I think I worked on it for a couple of days, but I should have spent much longer of course, it is rather troubled in several places and could definitely have been written much better.

Oh well, I'm not pretending to be a real poet, I'm just a lowly poetaster  ;D