Ad Finem. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGBGB AHAHEIEJ KLKLCMMM MNMNOPOP| On the white throat of the' useless passion | A |
| That scorched my soul with its burning breath | B |
| I clutched my fingers in murderous fashion | A |
| And gathered them close in a grip of death | B |
| For why should I fan or feed with fuel | C |
| A love that showed me but blank despair | D |
| So my hold was firm and my grasp was cruel | C |
| I meant to strangle it then and there | D |
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| I thought it was dead But with no warning | E |
| It rose from its grave last night and came | F |
| And stood by my bed till the early morning | E |
| And over and over it spoke your name | F |
| Its throat was red where my hands had held it | G |
| It burned my brow with its scorching breath | B |
| And I said the moment my eyes beheld it | G |
| A love like this can know no death | B |
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| For just one kiss that your lips have given | A |
| In the lost and beautiful past to me | H |
| I would gladly barter my hopes of Heaven | A |
| And all the bliss of Eternity | H |
| For never a joy are the angels keeping | E |
| To lay at my feet in Paradise | I |
| Like that of into your strong arms creeping | E |
| And looking into your love lit eyes | J |
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| I know in the way that sins are reckoned | K |
| This thought is a sin of the deepest dye | L |
| But I know too if an angel beckoned | K |
| Standing close by the Throne on High | L |
| And you adown by the gates infernal | C |
| Should open your loving arms and smile | M |
| I would turn my back on things supernal | M |
| To lie on your breast a little while | M |
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| To know for an hour you were mine completely | M |
| Mine in body and soul my own | N |
| I would bear unending tortures sweetly | M |
| With not a murmur and not a moan | N |
| A lighter sin or a lesser error | O |
| Might change through hope or fear divine | P |
| But there is no fear and hell has no terror | O |
| To change or alter a love like mine | P |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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