The Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNO APBQRST| For fifty years | A |
| Cruel insatiable Old World | B |
| You have punched me over the heart | C |
| Till you made me cough blood | D |
| The few paltry things I gathered | E |
| You snatched out of my hands | F |
| You have knocked the cup from my thirsty lips | G |
| You have laughed at my hunger of body and soul | H |
| - | |
| You look at me now and think | I |
| He is still strong | J |
| There ought to be twenty more years of good punching there | K |
| At the end of that time he will be old and broken | L |
| Not able to strike back | M |
| But cringing and crying for leave | N |
| To live a little longer | O |
| - | |
| Those twenty pitiful extra years | A |
| Would please you more than the fifty past | P |
| Would they not Old World | B |
| Well I hold them up before your greedy eyes | Q |
| And snatch them away as I laugh in your face | R |
| Ha Ha | S |
| Bang | T |
James Weldon Johnson
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