The Price He Paid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJI KLK MNON PQPQMRSR TUTUVWXW YZYZA2B2C2B2 AD2AD2E2A2F2A2| I said I would have my fling | A |
| And do what a young man may | B |
| And I didn't believe a thing | A |
| That the parsons have to say | B |
| I didn't believe in a God | C |
| That gives us blood like fire | D |
| Then flings us into hell because | E |
| We answer the call of desire | D |
| - | |
| And I said 'Religion is rot | F |
| And the laws of the world are nil | G |
| For the bad man is he who is caught | F |
| And cannot foot his bill | G |
| And there is no place called hell | H |
| And heaven is only a truth | I |
| When a man has his way with a maid | J |
| In the fresh keen hour of youth | I |
| - | |
| 'And money can buy us grace | K |
| If it rings on the plate of the church | L |
| And money can neatly erase | K |
| Each sign of a sinful smirch ' | - |
| For I saw men everywhere | M |
| Hotfooting the road of vice | N |
| And women and preachers smiled on them | O |
| As long as they paid the price | N |
| - | |
| So I had my joy of life | P |
| I went the pace of the town | Q |
| And then I took me a wife | P |
| And started to settle down | Q |
| I had gold enough and to spare | M |
| For all of the simple joys | R |
| That belong with a house and a home | S |
| And a brood of girls and boys | R |
| - | |
| I married a girl with health | T |
| And virtue and spotless fame | U |
| I gave in exchange my wealth | T |
| And a proud old family name | U |
| And I gave her the love of a heart | V |
| Grown sated and sick of sin | W |
| My deal with the devil was all cleaned up | X |
| And the last bill handed in | W |
| - | |
| She was going to bring me a child | Y |
| And when in labour she cried | Z |
| With love and fear I was wild | Y |
| But now I wish she had died | Z |
| For the son she bore me was blind | A2 |
| And crippled and weak and sore | B2 |
| And his mother was left a wreck | C2 |
| It was so she settled my score | B2 |
| - | |
| I said I must have my fling | A |
| And they knew the path I would go | D2 |
| Yet no one told me a thing | A |
| Of what I needed to know | D2 |
| Folks talk too much of a soul | E2 |
| From heavenly joys debarred | A2 |
| And not enough of the babes unborn | F2 |
| By the sins of their fathers scarred | A2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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