The Punished Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFCF| Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish | A |
| Not they who while sad years go by them in | B |
| The sunless cells of lonely prisons languish | A |
| Do suffer fullest penalty for sin | B |
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| 'Tis they who walk the highways unsuspected | C |
| Yet with grim fear for ever at their side | D |
| Who hug the corpse of some sin undetected | C |
| A corpse no grave or coffin lid can hide | D |
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| 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted | E |
| By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude | F |
| And sit down uninvited and unwanted | C |
| And make a nightmare of the solitude | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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