Who Shall Deliver Me? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB ACC ADD AEE AFF AGH AII AJJ| God strengthen me to bear myself | A |
| That heaviest weight of all to bear | B |
| Inalienable weight of care | B |
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| All others are outside myself | A |
| I lock my door and bar them out | C |
| The turmoil tedium gad about | C |
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| I lock my door upon myself | A |
| And bar them out but who shall wall | D |
| Self from myself most loathed of all | D |
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| If I could once lay down myself | A |
| And start self purged upon the race | E |
| That all must run Death runs apace | E |
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| If I could set aside myself | A |
| And start with lightened heart upon | F |
| The road by all men overgone | F |
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| God harden me against myself | A |
| This coward with pathetic voice | G |
| Who craves for ease and rest and joys | H |
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| Myself arch traitor to myself | A |
| My hollowest friend my deadliest foe | I |
| My clog whatever road I go | I |
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| Yet One there is can curb myself | A |
| Can roll the strangling load from me | J |
| Break off the yoke and set me free | J |
Christina Rossetti
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