His Last Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDC EFFEGHI JKLLMNKMNONNOP QPLLQRRPPNSTUAANNVWW VXXYYNZNZA2A2B2B2NN C2C2Well 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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