Impenitent Ultima Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADAD EFEG BHBI JJJJ| Before my light goes out for ever if God should give me a choice of graces | A |
| I would not reck of length of days nor crave for things to be | B |
| But cry One day of the great lost days one face of all the faces | C |
| Grant me to see and touch once more and nothing more to see | B |
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| For Lord I was free of all Thy flowers but I chose the world's sad roses | A |
| And that is why my feet are torn and mine eyes are blind with sweat | D |
| But at Thy terrible judgment seat when this my tired life closes | A |
| I am ready to reap whereof I sowed and pay my righteous debt | D |
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| But once before the sand is run and the silver thread is broken | E |
| Give me a grace and cast aside the veil of dolorous years | F |
| Grant me one hour of all mine hours and let me see for a token | E |
| Her pure and pitiful eyes shine out and bathe her feet with tears | G |
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| Her pitiful hands should calm and her hair stream down and blind me | B |
| Out of the sight of night and out of the reach of fear | H |
| And her eyes should be my light whilst the sun went out behind me | B |
| And the viols in her voice be the last sound in mine ear | I |
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| Before the ruining waters fall and my life be carried under | J |
| And Thine anger cleave me through as a child cuts down a flower | J |
| I will praise Thee Lord in Hell while my limbs are racked asunder | J |
| For the last sad sight of her face and the little grace of an hour | J |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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