Darkness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GGHGIJKL MNONPQRQ| A gentleman of wit and charm | A |
| A kindly heart a cleanly mind | B |
| One who was quick with hand or purse | C |
| To lift the burden of his kind | B |
| A brain well balanced and mature | D |
| A soul that shrank from all things base | E |
| So rode he forth that winter day | F |
| Complete in every mortal grace | E |
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| And then the blunder of a horse | G |
| The crash upon the frozen clods | G |
| And Death Ah no such dignity | H |
| But Life all twisted and at odds | G |
| At odds in body and in soul | I |
| Degraded to some brutish state | J |
| A being loathsome and malign | K |
| Debased obscene degenerate | L |
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| Pathology The case is clear | M |
| The diagnosis is exact | N |
| A bone depressed a haemorrhage | O |
| The pressure on a nervous tract | N |
| Theology Ah there's the rub | P |
| Since brain and soul together fade | Q |
| Then when the brain is dead enough | R |
| Lord help us for we need Thine aid | Q |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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