The Pendulum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIFF BB| In Edgar Allan Poe's story 'The Pit and the Pendulum ' the victim is bound hand and foot face upturned to a huge knife edged pendulum which swings back and forth across his body the blade dropping closer to his heart at each swing | A |
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| Bound hand and foot in the pit I lie | B |
| And the wall about me is strong and high | B |
| Stronger and higher it grows each day | C |
| With maximum labour and minimum pay | C |
| And there is no ladder whereon to climb | D |
| To a fairer world and a brighter time | D |
| There is no ladder there is no rope | E |
| But the devil of greed has given a hope | E |
| He swings before me the pendulum Vice | F |
| I know its purpose and know its price | F |
| And the world's good people all know it too | G |
| And much they chatter and little they do | G |
| I have sent up my cry to the hosts of men | H |
| Over and over and over again | H |
| But should I cry once to the devil ah he | I |
| Would hurry to answer and set me free | I |
| For Virtue to Virtue must ever call thrice | F |
| But once brings an answer when Virtue calls Vice | F |
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| Bound hand and foot in the pit I lie | B |
| While the pendulum swings and the days go by | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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