Liebestod Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR| When I was bold when I was bold | A |
| And that's a hundred years | B |
| Oh never I thought my breast could hold | A |
| The terrible weight of tears | C |
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| I said Now some be dolorous | C |
| I hear them wail and sigh | D |
| And if it be Love that play them thus | C |
| Then never a love will I | D |
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| I said I see them rack and rue | E |
| I see them wring and ache | F |
| And little I'll crack my heart in two | E |
| With little the heart can break | F |
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| When I was gay when I was gay | G |
| It's ninety years and nine | H |
| Oh never I thought that Death could lay | G |
| His terrible hand in mine | H |
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| I said He plies his trade among | I |
| The musty and infirm | J |
| A body so hard and bright and young | I |
| Could never be meat for worm | J |
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| I see him dull their eyes I said | K |
| And still their rattling breath | L |
| And how under God could I be dead | K |
| That never was meant for Death | L |
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| But Love came by to quench my sleep | M |
| And here's my sundered heart | N |
| And bitter's my woe and black and deep | M |
| And little I guessed a part | N |
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| Yet this there is to cool my breast | O |
| And this to ease my spell | P |
| Now if I were Love's like all the rest | O |
| Then can I be Death's as well | P |
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| And he shall have me sworn and bound | Q |
| And I'll be done with Love | R |
| And better I'll be below the ground | Q |
| Than ever I'll be above | R |
Dorothy Parker
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