In The Round Tower At Jhansi, June 8, 1857 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHJ KLML NOP| A hundred a thousand to one even so | A |
| Not a hope in the world remained | B |
| The swarming howling wretches below | A |
| Gained and gained and gained | B |
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| Skene looked at his pale young wife | C |
| Is the time come The time is come | D |
| Young strong and so full of life | C |
| The agony struck them dumb | D |
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| Close his arm about her now | E |
| Close her cheek to his | F |
| Close the pistol to her brow | E |
| God forgive them this | G |
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| Will it hurt much No mine own | H |
| I wish I could bear the pang for both | I |
| I wish I could bear the pang alone | H |
| Courage dear I am not loth | J |
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| Kiss and kiss It is not pain | K |
| Thus to kiss and die | L |
| One kiss more And yet one again | M |
| Good by Good by | L |
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| Note I retain this little poem not as historically | N |
| accurate but as written and published before I heard the | O |
| supposed facts of its first verse contradicted | P |
Christina Rossetti
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