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