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 weep | A |
| But watched till morning came | B |
| And when she slept at dawn she heard | C |
| The dead man call her name | B |
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| The second night she watched and wept | D |
| And called on death for grace | E |
| And when she slept before the dawn | F |
| She saw the dead man s face | E |
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| The third night through she laughed as one | G |
| That knows her way to bliss | H |
| And in the instant ere she slept | D |
| She felt the dead man s kiss | H |
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| She rose and faced the flickering fire | I |
| And oh but she was fair | J |
| Like a wild witch behind her danced | K |
| The shadow of her hair | J |
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| She took her penknife from its sheath | L |
| The tender blade she kissed | M |
| And by the firelight s dying leap | A |
| She bared her little wrist | M |
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| And where the vein ran large and blue | N |
| She cut once and again | O |
| Yet ere she swooned from life she knew | N |
| Her death had been in vain | P |
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| For while life thundered in her ears | Q |
| Ere yet her pulse might fail | R |
| Far off across the kindless night | S |
| She heard the dead man s wail | R |
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| And knew her doom was one with theirs | T |
| That kill the life God gave | U |
| And that she might not leave this earth | V |
| Her soul alive to save | U |
| But ay must dwell within that house | W |
| As in a living grave | U |
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| While he for whom she died might ne er | I |
| Win to her in that place | E |
| But must for ever make his moan | X |
| Ranging in agony alone | X |
| The trackless void of space | E |
Archibald Thomas Strong
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