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Forsaking All Others Part 5 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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TRAINED nurses trained nurses everywhere	B
Trained nurses by night trained nurses by day	C
In the corridors on the stair	B
Looking for towels carrying a tray	C
Saying 'you mustn't ' 'you must ' 'you may '	-
Smooth as to hair stiff as to skirt	D
Kind in a cool impersonal way	C
Angels of mercy bright eyed alert	D
Hard young angels sent to avert	D
That older angel of dark despair	B
Stiff starched angels a trifle curt	D
Trained nurses trained nurses everywhere	B
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II	A
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A WHITE figure spoke from the doorway	C
In a tone deliberately bright	E
'Would you like to see the patient	F
For a moment and say goodnight '	-
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Shepherded in like a stranger	G
He stood beside her bed	H
Gazed at those pale blank eyelids	I
In that carven ivory head	H
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Took her hand and heard her	G
Murmur 'Is that you Jim '	-
But he knew she was very tired	J
Tired even of him	K
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Too much spent with the struggle	L
Of drawing breath to afford	M
A brief smile utterly weary	N
And more than utterly bored	M
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III	A
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NEVER before had Ruth been out of reach	O
Barriers had been but only of his making	P
Now she had passed beyond the power of speech	O
Quite quite indifferent that his heart was breaking	P
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Here in the bedroom that he used to share	B
She lived day after day averse to living	P
Indifferent unforgiving unaware	B
That he had any need of her forgiving	P
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IV	-
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AT first Lee wrote to him every day	C
Tactful letters that let him see	N
She knew very well he would rather be	N
With her but it wasn't the thing to say	C
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Tactful letters at first and then	Q
Letters less tactful and more sincere	R
Ending 'Why don't you write to me dear '	-
Write to me over and over again	Q
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But he could not answer her piteous call	S
Not exactly that he forgot	T
Their love but only that she had not	T
Any reality for him at all	S
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She seemed like a pleasant book he had read	H
Read and enjoyed but the printed page	U
Cannot compete with the heritage	V
Of Nature the living and Oh the dead	H
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At last he sent her a brief reply	A
'I cannot write or eat or sleep	W
Just now I am going through the deep	W
Waters Forgive me dear Lee Good bye '	-
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V	N
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THEN a night came	X
When in sleep broken	Y
He heard his name	X
Suddenly spoken	Y
Into his dream	Z
Horrors flocked thickly	N
Was that a scream	Z
'Better come quicklyl'	N
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Cold was his room	A2
And his hands shaking	P
Out of the gloom	A2
Dawn was just breaking	P
Dawn cool and green	B2
Over the ocean	Y
Never more seen	B2
Without emotion	Y
Of death agony	N
Somebody crying	P
All dawns that dawn when he	N
Knew Ruth was dying	P
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VI	A
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WHAT can you do with a woman's things	C2
After a woman is dead	H
Not the bracelets and rings and strings	C2
Of pearls but the small unvalued things	C2
What can I do Wayne said	H
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What can you do with a woman's dresses	D2
After a woman is dead	H
Hanging limp in the cedar presses	D2
They are part of herself her pretty dresses	D2
What can I do Wayne said	H
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What can you do with a woman's shoes	E2
After a woman is dead	H
Shoes that perhaps you helped her choose	E2
Poor little empty half worn shoes	E2
What can I do Wayne said	H
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What can you do with her brush and comb	F2
After a woman is dead	H
What in God's name can you do with her home	F2
And her loss and her love and her brush and comb	F2
What can I do Wayne said	H
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VII	A
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UP a little river	G
Where salmon used to play	N
Not twenty miles distant	F
A little village lay	N
Ruth's native village	V
Where Wayne used to go	G2
To see his mother's mother	G
Many years ago	G2
Here in a churchyard	H2
With pines along the wall	N
And a wooden church steeple	N
Almost too tall	N
Here in September	G
On a bright clear day	N
Among the graves of sailors	I2
They laid Ruth away	N
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In this same churchyard	H2
Sitting on the stones	J2
He had first said he loved her	G
In young shaken tones	J2
That had been September	G
But not this bright light	E
Between the pine needles	K2
The stars shone white	E
Such a little maiden	Y
Such a young man	L2
'I love you ' And she answered	J
'I don't see how you can '	-
They had been so happy	N
They had not cared at all	N
That the place was a churchyard	H2
With pines along the wall	N
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VIII	A
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WAYNE stood bareheaded on the churchyard sward	M
By the open grave under the open sky	A
'I am the resurrection and the life saith the Lord	M
He who believeth in Me shall never die '	-
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Beautiful terrible service He heard a word	J
Here and there and then he would drift away	N
To other memories and things not heard	J
Ruth's laugh when she used to laugh so little and gay	N
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'When thou with rebukes dost chasten a man from sin '	-
Was it sin that had parted him from Ruth	M2
Was sin the secret corrosion that entered in	N2
Likea moth fretting the garment of love in youth	M2
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Too late too late He heard the parson say	N
'Before I go hence and be no more seen	B2
A thousand years in thy sight is but as yesterday	N
Too late too late 'As grass in the morning green '	-
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'Was it Ruth he was leaving here in the churchyard plot	T
Could it be Ruth who had gone not saying good bye	A
'What advantageth it me if the dead rise not	T
Let us eat and drink for to morrow we die '	-
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How can a man help eating and drinking	P
Die to morrow To day if he had his will	N
How many years must he spend in thinking thinking	P
Of the thing which someone has said that all men kill	N
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Well he could bear what he must bear even the sound	O2
Of earth on a coffin falling What must be must	P2
'We therefore commit her body to the ground	O2
Ashes to ashes earth to earth dust to dust '	-
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Prayers Would they never be done these killing	P
Rites for the dead Ah there was the organ's roll	N
From the little church and children's voices shrilling	P
Piping Ruth's favourite hymn 'Hark hark my soul '	-
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'Hark hark my soul Angelic songs are swelling	P
O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave beat shore	Q2
How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling	P
Of that new life where sin shall be no morel	N
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Angels of Jesus	R2
Angels of light	E
Singing to welcome	S2
The pilgrims of the night '	-
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IX	R2
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'Dear Lee	N
I've tried so many times to write	E
And now I must write for I sail next week	P
For Italy Sardinia I might	E
Go on to Egypt later and the Greek Islands	R2
I may be several years away	N
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'I loved you Lee I wonder if I can	L2
Explain at all what's happened From your wealth	T2
You gave me freely more than any man	L2
Has ever had beauty wit youth and health	T2
I loved you passionately and now my wife	A
Is dead One might expect a mild distress	R2
A briefly pensive mood Instead my life	A
Is shattered is dissolved is meaningless	R2
She whom of late I thought so little of	A
And saw so little was I find the spring	P
Of all I did and felt even of my love	A
Of you What an insane incredible thingl	N
But there it is	R2
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'Dear Lee this is the truth	M2
That any marriage founded on devotion	Y
Though that devotion die as mine for Ruth	M2
Is not a state but a unique emotion	Y
Potent unalterable not romantic	P
Love though romantic love is where it starts	R2
Marriage begins only when those hot frantic	P
Fires have finished welding human hearts	R2
It is not love friendship or partnership	U2
But this emotion marriage of a force	R2
That when it once has held you in its grip	U2
Nothing will free you wholly not divorce	R2
Or death for these destroy not it but you	V2
As I am now destroyed	W2
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'Beware dear Lee	N
Of a true marriage if you are not true	V2
Yourself or you will be destroyed like me '	-