His Last Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDC EFFEGHI JKLLMNKMNONNOP QPLLQRRPPNSTUAANNVWW VXXYYNZNZA2A2B2B2NN C2C2| Well you are free | A |
| The longed for lied for waited for decree | A |
| Is yours to day | B |
| I made no protest and you had your say | B |
| And left me with no vestige of repute | C |
| Neglect abuse and cruelty you charge | D |
| With broken marriage vows The list is large | D |
| But not to be denied So I was mute | C |
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| Now you shall listen to a few plain facts | E |
| Before you go out wholly from my life | F |
| As some man's wife | F |
| Read carefully this statement of your acts | E |
| Which changed the lustre of my honeymoon | G |
| To sombre gloom | H |
| And wrenched the cover from Pandora's box | I |
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| In those first talks | J |
| 'Twixt bride and groom I showed you my whole heart | K |
| Showed you how deep my love was and how true | L |
| With all a strong man's feeling I loved YOU | L |
| God how I loved you my one chosen mate | M |
| But I learned this | N |
| So poorly did you play your little part | K |
| You married marriage to avoid the fate | M |
| Of having 'Miss' | N |
| Carved on your tombstone Love you did not know | O |
| But you were greedy for the showy things | N |
| That money brings | N |
| Such weak affection as you could bestow | O |
| Was given the provider not the lover | P |
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| The knowledge hurt Keen pain like that is dumb | Q |
| And masks itself in smiles lest men discover | P |
| But I was lonely and the feeling grew | L |
| The more I studied you | L |
| Into your shallow heart love could not come | Q |
| But yet you loved my love because it gave | R |
| The prowess of a mistress o'er a slave | R |
| You showed your power | P |
| In petty tyranny hour after hour | P |
| Day after day year after lengthening years | N |
| My tasks my pleasures my pursuits were not | S |
| Held near or dear | T |
| Or made to seem important in your thought | U |
| My friends were not your friends you goaded me | A |
| By foolish and ignoble jealousy | A |
| Till through suggestion's laws | N |
| I gave you cause | N |
| The beauteous ideal Love had hung | V |
| In my soul's shrine | W |
| And worshipped as a something all divine | W |
| With wanton hand you flung | V |
| Into the dust And then you wondered why | X |
| My love should die | X |
| My sins and derelictions cry aloud | Y |
| To all the world my head is bowed | Y |
| Under its merited reproaches Yours | N |
| Is lifted to receive | Z |
| The sympathy the court's decree insures | N |
| The world loves to believe | Z |
| In man's depravity and woman's worth | A2 |
| But I am one of many men on earth | A2 |
| Whose loud resounding fall | B2 |
| Is like the crashing of some well built wall | B2 |
| Which those who seek can trace | N |
| To the slow work of insects at its base | N |
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| Be not afraid | C2 |
| The alimony will be promptly paid | C2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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