The Murder Of William Remington Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HIHIJJ GKGLMM| It is true that even in the best run state | A |
| Such things will happen it is true | B |
| What s done is done The law whereby we hate | A |
| Our hatred sees no fire in the flue | B |
| But by the smoke and not for thought alone | C |
| It punishes but for the thing that s done | D |
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| And yet there is the horror of the fact | E |
| Though we knew not the man To die in jail | F |
| To be beaten to death to know the act | E |
| Of personal fury before the eyes can fail | F |
| And the man die against the cold last wall | G |
| Of the lonely world and neither is that all | G |
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| There is the terror too of each man s thought | H |
| That knows not but must quietly suspect | I |
| His neighbor friend or self of being taught | H |
| To take an attitude merely correct | I |
| Being frightened of his own cold image in | J |
| The glass of government and his own sin | J |
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| Frightened lest senate house and prison wall | G |
| Be quarried of one stone lest righteous and high | K |
| Look faintly smiling down and seem to call | G |
| A crime the welcome chance of liberty | L |
| And any man an outlaw who aggrieves | M |
| The patriotism of a pair of thieves | M |
Howard Nemerov
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