Llewellen Powell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDBEEDDDFFGHHGI IHJJHHIHHKHKLLMCCM NNAAOAOHHPPQQRAARSKS KVillain 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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