Impenitentia Ultima Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGD HBIJHBHJ KLMNDLOP QDMRLDST UKVKWKXK| Before 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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