The Blow Returned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG FBHB| I struck you once I do remember well | A |
| Hard on the track of passion sorrow sped | B |
| And swift repentance weeping for the blow | C |
| I struck you once and now you're lying dead | B |
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| Now you are gone the blow no longer sleeps | D |
| In your forgiveness hushed through all the years | E |
| But like a phantom haunts me through the dark | F |
| To cry You gave your own belov d tears | G |
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| Stript now of all excuses stern and stark | F |
| With all your small transgressings dimmed or fled | B |
| The ghost returns the blow upon my heart | H |
| I struck you once and now you're lying dead | B |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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