Llewellen Powell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDBEEDDDFFGHHGI IHJJHHIHHKHKLLMCCM NNAAOAOHHPPQQRAARSKS K| Villain when the word is spoken | A |
| And your chains at last are broken | A |
| When the gibbet's chilling shade | B |
| Ceases darkly to enfold you | C |
| And the angel who enrolled you | C |
| As a master of the trade | B |
| Of assassination sadly | D |
| Blots the record he has made | B |
| And your name and title paints | E |
| In the calendar of saints | E |
| When the devils dancing madly | D |
| In the midmost Hell are very | D |
| Multitudinously merry | D |
| Then beware beware beware | F |
| Nemesis is everywhere | F |
| You shall hear her at your back | G |
| And your hunted visage turning | H |
| Fancy that her eyes are burning | H |
| Like a tiger's on your track | G |
| You shall hear her in the breeze | I |
| Whispering to summer trees | I |
| You shall hear her calling calling | H |
| To your spirit through the storm | J |
| When the giant billows form | J |
| And the splintered lightning falling | H |
| Down the heights of Heaven appalling | H |
| Splendors all the tossing seas | I |
| On your bed at night reclining | H |
| Stars into your chamber shining | H |
| As they roll around the Pole | K |
| None their purposes divining | H |
| Shall appear to search your soul | K |
| And to gild the mark of Cain | L |
| That burns into your tortured brain | L |
| And the dead man's eyes shall ever | M |
| Meet your own wherever you | C |
| Desperate shall turn you to | C |
| And you shall escape them never | M |
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| By your heritage of guilt | N |
| By the blood that you have spilt | N |
| By the Law that you have broken | A |
| By the terrible red token | A |
| That you bear upon your brow | O |
| By the awful sentence spoken | A |
| And irrevocable vow | O |
| Which consigns you to a living | H |
| Death and to the unforgiving | H |
| Furies who avenge your crime | P |
| Through the periods of time | P |
| By that dread eternal doom | Q |
| Hinted in your future's gloom | Q |
| As the flames infernal tell | R |
| Of their power and perfection | A |
| In their wavering reflection | A |
| On the battlements of Hell | R |
| By the mercy you denied | S |
| I condemn your guilty soul | K |
| In your body to abide | S |
| Like a serpent in a hole | K |
Ambrose Bierce
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