Too Late Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC CCDEE FF GGH HIIJJ KKGGF FLLMM NNOOP P| HOPE What hope you say there is hope for the long lost one | A |
| Hope when the light is out hope when the oil is done | A |
| Hope No no good lady no hope for me at least | B |
| No home for me but the clammy grave when life has ceased | B |
| Hope Well there might have been hope had my mother lived but then | C |
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| God struck her dead and I was left alone among men | C |
| God knows how I loved her and shall I never see her again | C |
| Is there no glimpse of heaven for those who are doomed to pain | D |
| Oh cannot she come and kiss me Oh cannot she pray by my side | E |
| As she did long ago on that terrible evening before she died | E |
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| If she prayed God would hear her and perhaps but no | F |
| I'm too old a sinner for mercy there is nothing for me but woe | F |
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| You say that I yet could be saved if I sorrowed for my sin | G |
| That the Lord is at heaven's gate to take poor sinners in | G |
| God knows that I hate my sin but I feel that it cannot be | H |
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| I've so often forsaken Him that He must have forsaken me | H |
| Nay don't offer a prayer for me lady it's only mocking at God | I |
| Who knows but my tired heart still may rest beneath the sod | I |
| For I always loved the sunny fields and the sweet sweet flowers | J |
| And longed to be pure once again like them in my better hours | J |
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| But after I first had fallen the devil opened my eyes | K |
| And I saw that the world knew my shame and I hadn't the heart to rise | K |
| So I gave up trying to be good and sank down lower in sin | G |
| Tho' the thought of poor dead mother made me always hate it within | G |
| Oh many's the night that I've wandered about thro' rain and snow | F |
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| Wandered about in the street and didn't know where had to go | F |
| And I've often crept to the river and looked at it still and black | L |
| And thought how every one spurned me but something held me back | L |
| I remember how once when I stopped half dead one rainy day | M |
| To rest on his steps for a moment the servants drove me away | M |
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| Drove me away like a dog from the door of the man for whom | N |
| O God I had given up all in this world and beyond the tomb | N |
| But don't weep at my story good lady I'm not worth it living or dead | O |
| Ha ha I'm not frightened of Death nor the devils that dance round my bed | O |
| There cannot be any hell deeper nor fuller of devils and strife | P |
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| Than the hell that burns in my heart and the fire that eats out life | P |
Frederick George Scott
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