Harlan Sewall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFAGHEIJKLKMNOP G| You never understood O unknown one | A |
| Why it was I repaid | B |
| Your devoted friendship and delicate ministrations | C |
| First with diminished thanks | D |
| Afterward by gradually withdrawing my presence from you | E |
| So that I might not be compelled to thank you | E |
| And then with silence which followed upon | F |
| Our final Separation | A |
| You had cured my diseased soul But to cure it | G |
| You saw my disease you knew my secret | H |
| And that is why I fled from you | E |
| For though when our bodies rise from pain | I |
| We kiss forever the watchful hands | J |
| That gave us wormwood while we shudder | K |
| For thinking of the wormwood | L |
| A soul that's cured is a different matter | K |
| For there we'd blot from memory | M |
| The soft toned words the searching eyes | N |
| And stand forever oblivious | O |
| Not so much of the sorrow itself | P |
| As of the hand that healed it | G |
Edgar Lee Masters
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