The Last Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F B G H I J

We had once been close and warm friends But an unlucky moment came and we parted as enemiesA
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Many years passed by And coming to the town where he lived I learnt that he was helplessly ill and wished to see meB
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I made my way to him went into his room Our eyes metC
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I hardly knew him God what sickness had done to himD
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Yellow wrinkled completely bald with a scanty grey beard he sat clothed in nothing but a shirt purposely slit open He could not bear the weight of even the lightest clothes Jerkily he stretched out to me his fearfully thin hand that looked as if it were gnawed away with an effort muttered a few indistinct words whether of welcome or reproach who can tell His emaciated chest heaved and over the dwindled pupils of his kindling eyes rolled two hard wrung tears of sufferingE
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My heart sank I sat down on a chair beside him and involuntarily dropping my eyes before the horror and hideousness of it I too held out my handF
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But it seemed to me that it was not his hand that took hold of meB
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It seemed to me that between us is sitting a tall still white woman A long robe shrouds her from head to foot Her deep pale eyes look into vacancy no sound is uttered by her pale stern lipsG
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This woman has joined our hands She has reconciled us for everH
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Yes Death has reconciled usI
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AprilJ

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev



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