Exeunt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBC DEDEDE FGHGHG IJIJIJ BBBBBBB| HELEN RABY | A |
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| Where the grave deeps rot where the grave dews rust | B |
| They dug crying Earth to earth | C |
| Crying Ashes to ashes and dust to dust | B |
| And what are my poor prayers worth | C |
| Upon whom shall I call or in whom shall I trust | B |
| Though death were indeed new birth | C |
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| And they bid me be glad for my baby's sake | D |
| That she suffered sinless and young | E |
| Would they have me be glad when my breasts still ache | D |
| Where that small soft sweet mouth clung | E |
| I am glad that the heart will so surely break | D |
| That has been so bitterly wrung | E |
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| He was false they tell me and what if he were | F |
| I can only shudder and pray | G |
| Pouring out my soul in a passionate prayer | H |
| For the soul that he cast away | G |
| Was there nothing that once was created fair | H |
| In the potter's perishing clay | G |
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| Is it well for the sinner that souls endure | I |
| For the sinless soul is it well | J |
| Does the pure child lisp to the angels pure | I |
| And where does the strong man dwell | J |
| If the sad assurance of priests be sure | I |
| Or the tale that our preachers tell | J |
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| The unclean has follow'd the undefiled | B |
| And the ill may regain the good | B |
| And the man may be even as the little child | B |
| We are children lost in the wood | B |
| Lord lead us out of this tangled wild | B |
| Where the wise and the prudent have been beguil'd | B |
| And only the babes have stood | B |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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