Pain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDEFGGFFG GFHIAIIA| She heard the children playing in the sun | A |
| And through her window saw the white stemmed trees | B |
| Sway like a film of silver in the breeze | B |
| Under the purple hills and one by one | A |
| She noted chairs and cabinets and spun | A |
| The pattern of her bed's pale draperies | B |
| Yet all the while she knew that each of these | B |
| Was a dull lie in irony begun | A |
| For down in hell she lay whose livid fires | C |
| Love may not quench whose pangs death may not quell | D |
| The round immensity of earth and sky | E |
| Shrank to a point that speared her Loves' desires | C |
| Darkened to torturing ministers of hell | D |
| Whose mockery of joy deepened the lie | E |
| Little eternities the black hours were | F |
| That no beginning knew that knew no end | G |
| Day waned and night came like a faithless friend | G |
| Bringing no joy till slowly over her | F |
| A numbness grew and life became a blur | F |
| A silence an oblivion a dark blend | G |
| Of dim lost agonies whose downward trend | G |
| Led into time's eternal sepulchre | F |
| And yet when after aeons infinite | H |
| Of dark eclipse she woke lo it was day | I |
| The pictures hung upon the walls each one | A |
| Under the same rose patterned coverlet | I |
| She lay spring was still young and still the play | I |
| Of happy children sounded in the sun | A |
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