The Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEED FGGH IJJI KLLK MNNM OIIO PQQP ORRO| What anguish rankled 'neath that silent breast | A |
| What spectral figures mocked those staring eyes | B |
| Luring them on to Stygian mysteries | C |
| What overpowering sense of grief distressed | A |
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| What desperation nerved that rigid hand | D |
| To pull the trigger with such deadly aim | E |
| What deep remorse or terror overcame | E |
| The dread inherent of death's shadowy strand | D |
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| Perhaps the hand of unrelenting fate | F |
| Fell with such tragic pressure that the mind | G |
| In frenzy uncontrollable and blind | G |
| Sought but the darkness black and desolate | H |
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| Perhaps 'twas some misfortune's stunning blight | I |
| Perhaps unmerited though deep disgrace | J |
| Or vision of a wronged accusing face | J |
| Pictured indelibly before the sight | I |
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| Perhaps the gnawing of some secret sin | K |
| Some aberration fraught with morbid gloom | L |
| A buried hope which ever burst its tomb | L |
| Despondency disaster or chagrin | K |
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| That heart which throbbed in pain and discontent | M |
| Is silent as the grave for which it yearned | N |
| That brain which once with proud ambition burned | N |
| Now oozes through the bullet's ghastly rent | M |
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| Those eyes transfixed with such a gruesome stare | O |
| Once beamed with laughter innocent and bright | I |
| The morning gave no presage of the night | I |
| A smile may be the prelude of despair | O |
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| Whate'er his secret it remains untold | P |
| For why to human anguish add one groan | Q |
| Is grief the deeper grief because unknown | Q |
| So let the grave his form and burden hold | P |
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| Ye who have felt no crushing weight of care | O |
| From blame profuse in charity refrain | R |
| Some depths of sorrow overwhelm the brain | R |
| Some loads too great for human strength to bear | O |
Alfred Castner King
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