Atonement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG AHAHIJ KLKMNN| You were a red rose then I know | A |
| Red as her wine yea redder still | B |
| Say rather her blood and ages ago | A |
| You know how destiny hath its will | B |
| I placed you deep in her gorgeous hair | C |
| And left you to wither there | C |
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| Wine and blood and a red red rose | D |
| Feast and song and a long long sleep | E |
| And which of us dreamed at the drama's close | F |
| That the unforgetful years would keep | E |
| Our sin and their vengeance laid away | G |
| As a gift to this bitter day | G |
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| Now you are white as the mountain snow | A |
| White as the hand that I fold you in | H |
| And none but the angels of God may know | A |
| That either has once been stained with sin | H |
| It was blood and wine in the old old years | I |
| But now it is only tears | J |
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| And so at the end of our several ways | K |
| We have met once more and the truth is clear | L |
| That our heart's own blood no surer pays | K |
| For our sin in the past than atonement here | M |
| But the end has come as God knows best | N |
| Now we shall be at rest | N |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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