A Promise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDEDEE FGFGGHFHFF IJIJJKLKLL MNMNNFFFFF| A | |
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| Should'st thou in grip of dread disease | B |
| Foresee the day when thou must die | C |
| With no more hope of life or ease | B |
| But only lingering to lie | C |
| While torturing hours go slowly by | C |
| Thy brain awake thy nerves alive | D |
| To thine extremest agony | E |
| And all in vain to rave or strive | D |
| O my beloved if this should be | E |
| Call me and I will set thee free | E |
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| Murder And thou to judgment hurled | F |
| Cut off from some few days of grace | G |
| Thus will it be to that hard world | F |
| Which fits one law to every case | G |
| And dooms all rebels to disgrace | G |
| But to us twain who stand above | H |
| Conventioned rules unbound unclassed | F |
| A solemn sacrament of love | H |
| More true than kisses in the past | F |
| Love's costliest tribute and the last | F |
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| Thy grateful hand unclenched shall seek | I |
| The hand that gave thee thy release | J |
| Thy darkening eyes shall dumbly speak | I |
| Of scorching pangs that sink and cease | J |
| Of anguish drowned in rest and peace | J |
| And I that terrible farewell | K |
| Despairing but content shall take | L |
| Knowing that I have served thee well | K |
| I that would dare the rack and stake | L |
| The flames of hell for thy dear sake | L |
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| The law may hang me for my crime | M |
| Just or unjust I'll not complain | N |
| 'Twere better than to live my time | M |
| Bereaved and broken and to wane | N |
| Slow inch by inch in useless pain | N |
| Alone unhelped uncomforted | F |
| In mine own last extremity | F |
| No faithful lover by my bed | F |
| To do what thou would'st do for me | F |
| And I shall want to die with thee | F |
Ada Cambridge
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