The Last Judgment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLM NN| With beating heart and lagging feet | A |
| Lord I approach the Judgment seat | A |
| All bring hither the fruits of toil | B |
| Measures of wheat and measures of oil | B |
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| Gold and jewels and precious wine | C |
| No hands bare like these hands of mine | C |
| The treasure I have nor weighs nor gleams | D |
| Lord I can bring you only dreams | D |
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| In days of spring when my blood ran high | E |
| I lay in the grass and looked at the sky | E |
| And dreamed that my love lay by my side | F |
| My love was false and then she died | F |
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| All the heat of the summer through | G |
| I dreamed she lived that her heart was true | G |
| Throughout the hours of the day I slept | H |
| But woke in the night at times and wept | H |
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| The nights and days they went and came | I |
| I lay in shadow and dreamed of fame | I |
| And heard men passing the lonely place | J |
| Who marked me not and my hidden face | J |
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| My strength waxed faint my hair grew grey | K |
| Nothing but dreams by night and day | K |
| Some men sicken with wine and food | L |
| I starved on dreams and found them good | M |
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| This is the tale I have to tell | N |
| Show the fellow the way to hell | N |
Amy Levy
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