The Whip Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC CDCDDEDE CFCFFGFG HIHIICIC CJCJJCJC| The doubt you fought so long | A |
| The cynic net you cast | B |
| The tyranny the wrong | A |
| The ruin they are past | B |
| And here you are at last | B |
| Your blood no longer vexed | C |
| The coffin has you fast | B |
| The clod will have you next | C |
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| But fear you not the clod | C |
| Nor ever doubt the grave | D |
| The roses and the sod | C |
| Will not forswear the wave | D |
| The gift the river gave | D |
| Is now but theirs to cover | E |
| The mistress and the slave | D |
| Are gone now and the lover | E |
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| You left the two to find | C |
| Their own way to the brink | F |
| Then shall I call you blind | C |
| You chose to plunge and sink | F |
| God knows the gall we drink | F |
| Is not the mead we cry for | G |
| Nor was it I should think | F |
| For you a thing to die for | G |
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| Could we have done the same | H |
| Had we been in your place | I |
| This funeral of your name | H |
| Throws no light on the case | I |
| Could we have made the chase | I |
| And felt then as you felt | C |
| But what's this on your face | I |
| Blue curious like a welt | C |
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| There were some ropes of sand | C |
| Recorded long ago | J |
| But none I understand | C |
| Of water Is it so | J |
| And she she struck the blow | J |
| You but a neck behind | C |
| You saw the river flow | J |
| Still shall I call you blind | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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