One Year After Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDCCEFGFGFG A HIIJJIIJKLKMKL| I | A |
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| Not once in all our days of poignant love | B |
| Did I a single instant give to thee | C |
| My undivided being wholly free | C |
| Not all thy potent passion could remove | D |
| The barrier that loomed between to prove | D |
| The full supreme surrendering of me | C |
| Oh I was beaten helpless utterly | C |
| Against the shadow fact with which I strove | E |
| For when a cruel power forced me to face | F |
| The truth which poisoned our illicit wine | G |
| That even I was faithless to my race | F |
| Bleeding beneath the iron hand of thine | G |
| Our union seemed a monstrous thing and base | F |
| I was an outcast from thy world and mine | G |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Adventure seasoned and storm buffeted | H |
| I shun all signs of anchorage because | I |
| The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws | I |
| New gales of tropic fury round my head | J |
| Break lashing me through hours of soulful dread | J |
| But when the terror thins and spent withdraws | I |
| Leaving me wondering awhile I pause | I |
| But soon again the risky ways I tread | J |
| No rigid road for me no peace no rest | K |
| While molten elements run through my blood | L |
| And beauty burning bodies manifest | K |
| Their warm heart melting motions to be wooed | M |
| And passion boldly rising in my breast | K |
| Like rivers of the Spring lets loose its flood | L |
Claude Mckay
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