His Last Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDC EFFEGHI JKLLMNKMNONNOP QPLLQRRPPNSTUAANNVWW VXXYYNZNZA2A2B2B2NN C2C2

Well you are freeA
The longed for lied for waited for decreeA
Is yours to dayB
I made no protest and you had your sayB
And left me with no vestige of reputeC
Neglect abuse and cruelty you chargeD
With broken marriage vows The list is largeD
But not to be denied So I was muteC
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Now you shall listen to a few plain factsE
Before you go out wholly from my lifeF
As some man's wifeF
Read carefully this statement of your actsE
Which changed the lustre of my honeymoonG
To sombre gloomH
And wrenched the cover from Pandora's boxI
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In those first talksJ
'Twixt bride and groom I showed you my whole heartK
Showed you how deep my love was and how trueL
With all a strong man's feeling I loved YOUL
God how I loved you my one chosen mateM
But I learned thisN
So poorly did you play your little partK
You married marriage to avoid the fateM
Of having 'Miss'N
Carved on your tombstone Love you did not knowO
But you were greedy for the showy thingsN
That money bringsN
Such weak affection as you could bestowO
Was given the provider not the loverP
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The knowledge hurt Keen pain like that is dumbQ
And masks itself in smiles lest men discoverP
But I was lonely and the feeling grewL
The more I studied youL
Into your shallow heart love could not comeQ
But yet you loved my love because it gaveR
The prowess of a mistress o'er a slaveR
You showed your powerP
In petty tyranny hour after hourP
Day after day year after lengthening yearsN
My tasks my pleasures my pursuits were notS
Held near or dearT
Or made to seem important in your thoughtU
My friends were not your friends you goaded meA
By foolish and ignoble jealousyA
Till through suggestion's lawsN
I gave you causeN
The beauteous ideal Love had hungV
In my soul's shrineW
And worshipped as a something all divineW
With wanton hand you flungV
Into the dust And then you wondered whyX
My love should dieX
My sins and derelictions cry aloudY
To all the world my head is bowedY
Under its merited reproaches YoursN
Is lifted to receiveZ
The sympathy the court's decree insuresN
The world loves to believeZ
In man's depravity and woman's worthA2
But I am one of many men on earthA2
Whose loud resounding fallB2
Is like the crashing of some well built wallB2
Which those who seek can traceN
To the slow work of insects at its baseN
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Be not afraidC2
The alimony will be promptly paidC2

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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