Revenge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEDD FFGG| If I had hatred in my heart toward my fellow man | A |
| If I were pressed to do him ill to conjure up a plan | A |
| To wound him sorely and to rob his days of all their joy | B |
| I'd wish his wife would go away and take their little boy | B |
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| I'd waste no time on curses vague nor try to take his gold | C |
| Nor seek to shatter any plan that he might dearly hold | C |
| A crueler revenge than that for him I would bespeak | D |
| I'd wish his wife and little one might leave him for a week | D |
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| I'd wish him all the loneliness that comes with loss of those | E |
| Who fill his life with laughter and contentment and repose | E |
| I'd wish him empty rooms at night and mocking stairs to squeak | D |
| That neither wife nor little boy will greet him for a week | D |
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| If I despised my fellow man I'd make my hatred known | F |
| By wishing him a week or two of living all alone | F |
| I'd let him know the torture that is mine to bear to day | G |
| For Buddy and his mother now are miles and miles away | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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