Bereavement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIJKKLL MN OOP QQ| A Countess so they tell the tale | A |
| Who dwelt of old in Arno's vale | A |
| Where ladies even of high degree | B |
| Know more of love than of A B C | B |
| Came once with a prodigious bribe | C |
| Unto the learned village scribe | C |
| That most discreet and honest man | D |
| Who wrote for all the lover clan | D |
| Nor e'er a secret had betrayed | E |
| Save when inadequately paid | E |
| 'Write me ' she sobbed 'I pray thee do | F |
| A book about the Prince di Giu | G |
| A book of poetry in praise | H |
| Of all his works and all his ways | H |
| The godlike grace of his address | I |
| His more than woman's tenderness | J |
| His courage stern and lack of guile | K |
| The loves that wantoned in his smile | K |
| So great he was so rich and kind | L |
| I'll not within a fortnight find | L |
| His equal as a lover O | M |
| My God I shall be drowned in woe ' | N |
| - | |
| 'What Prince di Giu has died ' exclaimed | O |
| The honest man for letters famed | O |
| The while he pocketed her gold | P |
| 'Of what' if I may be so bold ' | - |
| Fresh storms of tears the lady shed | Q |
| 'I stabbed him fifty times ' she said | Q |
Ambrose Bierce
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