Archibald Thomas Strong

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Vain Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHDH IJKJ LMAM NONP QRSR TUVUWU IEXXE

ALL the first night she might not weepA
But watched till morning cameB
And when she slept at dawn she heardC
The dead man call her nameB
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The second night she watched and weptD
And called on death for graceE
And when she slept before the dawnF
She saw the dead man s faceE
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The third night through she laughed as oneG
That knows her way to blissH
And in the instant ere she sleptD
She felt the dead man s kissH
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She rose and faced the flickering fireI
And oh but she was fairJ
Like a wild witch behind her dancedK
The shadow of her hairJ
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She took her penknife from its sheathL
The tender blade she kissedM
And by the firelight s dying leapA
She bared her little wristM
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And where the vein ran large and blueN
She cut once and againO
Yet ere she swooned from life she knewN
Her death had been in vainP
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For while life thundered in her earsQ
Ere yet her pulse might failR
Far off across the kindless nightS
She heard the dead man s wailR
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And knew her doom was one with theirsT
That kill the life God gaveU
And that she might not leave this earthV
Her soul alive to saveU
But ay must dwell within that houseW
As in a living graveU
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While he for whom she died might ne erI
Win to her in that placeE
But must for ever make his moanX
Ranging in agony aloneX
The trackless void of spaceE

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