Thou Shalt Not Kill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC D EEFFG HHII| I had grown weary of him of his breath | A |
| And hands and features I was sick to death | A |
| Each day I heard the same dull voice and tread | B |
| I did not hate him but I wished him dead | B |
| And he must with his blank face fill my life | C |
| Then my brain blackened and I snatched a knife | C |
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| But ere I struck my soul's grey deserts through | D |
| A voice cried 'Know at least what thing you do ' | - |
| 'This is a common man knowest thou O soul | E |
| What this thing is somewhere where seasons roll | E |
| There is some living thing for whom this man | F |
| Is as seven heavens girt into a span | F |
| For some one soul you take the world away | G |
| Now know you well your deed and purpose Slay ' | - |
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| Then I cast down the knife upon the ground | H |
| And saw that mean man for one moment crowned | H |
| I turned and laughed for there was no one by | I |
| The man that I had sought to slay was I | I |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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