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