Cul-de-sac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BDBDB EFEFGG HBHBII BJBJKK| COULD I hope that when the brain | A |
| Tired of questions answerless | B |
| Shall slip off the bonds of pain | A |
| That enslave it and possess | B |
| I should know how little worth | C |
| Were the little things of earth | C |
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| 'Does it matter ' could I say | B |
| 'Whether she were false or true | D |
| Whether life was gold or grey | B |
| Whether skies were grey or blue | D |
| All this matters less it seems | B |
| Than the threads of broken dreams ' | - |
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| We may long to rest from strife | E |
| Cease to question or to grieve | F |
| But the sharpest ills of life | E |
| Nothing will reverse retrieve | F |
| For when we at last have rest | G |
| We shall know not we are blest | G |
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| While we know we have the ache | H |
| Consciousness with pain will cease | B |
| Sleep's joy comes not while we wake | H |
| Night of life means dawn of peace | B |
| But of peace which cannot be | I |
| Ever known by her or me | I |
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| Bow the back beneath the cross | B |
| Stagger on a few steps more | J |
| Bear the doubt the strain the loss | B |
| As we had to do before | J |
| When at last the burdens fall | K |
| We shall know it not at all | K |
Edith Nesbit
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