Through Agony Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEDEDE A FGGFFGGFBHBHBH| I | A |
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| All night through the eternity of night | B |
| Pain was my potion though I could not feel | C |
| Deep in my humbled heart you ground your heel | C |
| Till I was reft of even my inner light | B |
| Till reason from my mind had taken flight | B |
| And all my world went whirling in a reel | C |
| And all my swarthy strength turned cold like steel | C |
| A passive mass beneath your puny might | B |
| Last night I gave you triumph over me | D |
| So I should be myself as once before | E |
| I marveled at your shallow mystery | D |
| And haunted hungrily your temple door | E |
| I gave you sum and substance to be free | D |
| Oh you shall never triumph any more | E |
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| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| I do not fear to face the fact and say | F |
| How darkly dull my living hours have grown | G |
| My wounded heart sinks heavier than stone | G |
| Because I loved you longer than a day | F |
| I do not shame to turn myself away | F |
| From beckoning flowers beautifully blown | G |
| To mourn your vivid memory alone | G |
| In mountain fastnesses austerely gray | F |
| The mists will shroud me on the utter height | B |
| The salty brimming waters of my breast | H |
| Will mingle with the fresh dews of the night | B |
| To bathe my spirit hankering to rest | H |
| But after sleep I'll wake with greater might | B |
| Once more to venture on the eternal quest | H |
Claude Mckay
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