A Ballad Of Hell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEF GHGI JAJK LML INON PQPQ RSRT UVUV GWGW XYZY KAKA A2EA2E B2XB2Z QC2Q P HD2HD2 E2F2E2F2 EVEV K OLOL D2G2D2G2 H2I2H2I2

'A letter from my love to dayA
Oh unexpected dear appeal 'B
She struck a happy tear awayA
And broke the crimson sealC
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'My love there is no help on earthD
No help in heaven the dead man's bellE
Must toll our wedding our first hearthF
Must be the well paved floor of hell '-
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The colour died from out her faceG
Her eyes like ghostly candles shoneH
She cast dread looks about the placeG
Then clenched her teeth and read right onI
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'I may not pass the prison doorJ
Here must I rot from day to dayA
Unless I wed whom I abhorJ
My cousin Blanche of ValencayK
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'At midnight with my dagger keenL
I'll take my life it must be soM
Meet me in hell to night my queenL
For weal and woe '-
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She laughed although her face was wanI
She girded on her golden beltN
She took her jewelled ivory fanO
And at her glowing missal kneltN
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Then rose 'And am I mad ' she saidP
She broke her fan her belt untiedQ
With leather girt herself insteadP
And stuck a dagger at her sideQ
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She waited shuddering in her roomR
Till sleep had fallen on all the houseS
She never flinched she faced her doomR
They two must sin to keep their vowsT
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Then out into the night she wentU
And stooping crept by hedge and treeV
Her rose bush flung a snare of scentU
And caught a happy memoryV
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She fell and lay a minute's spaceG
She tore the sward in her distressW
The dewy grass refreshed her faceG
She rose and ran with lifted dressW
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She started like a morn caught ghostX
Once when the moon came out and stoodY
To watch the naked road she crossedZ
And dived into the murmuring woodY
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The branches snatched her streaming cloakK
A live thing shrieked she made no stayA
She hurried to the trysting oakK
Right well she knew the wayA
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Without a pause she bared her breastA2
And drove her dagger home and fellE
And lay like one that takes her restA2
And died and wakened up in hellE
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She bathed her spirit in the flameB2
And near the centre took her postX
From all sides to her ears there cameB2
The dreary anguish of the lostZ
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The devil started at her sideQ
Comely and tall and black as jetC2
'I am young Malespina's brideQ
Has he come hither yet '-
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'My poppet welcome to your bed '-
'Is Malespina here '-
'Not he To morrow he must wedP
His cousin Blanche my dear '-
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'You lie he died with me to night '-
'Not he it was a plot' 'You lie '-
'My dear I never lie outright '-
'We died at midnight he and I '-
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The devil went Without a groanH
She gathered up in one fierce prayerD2
Took root in hell's midst all aloneH
And waited for him thereD2
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She dared to make herself at homeE2
Amidst the wail the uneasy stirF2
The blood stained flame that filled the domeE2
Scentless and silent shrouded herF2
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How long she stayed I cannot tellE
But when she felt his perfidyV
She marched across the floor of hellE
And all the damned stood up to seeV
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The devil stopped her at the brinkK
She shook him off she cried 'Away '-
'My dear you have gone mad I think '-
'I was betrayed I will not stay '-
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Across the weltering deep she ranO
A stranger thing was never seenL
The damned stood silent to a manO
They saw the great gulf set betweenL
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To her it seemed a meadow fairD2
And flowers sprang up about her feetG2
She entered heaven she climbed the stairD2
And knelt down at the mercy seatG2
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Seraphs and saints with one great voiceH2
Welcomed that soul that knew not fearI2
Amazed to find it could rejoiceH2
Hell raised a hoarse half human cheerI2

John Davidson



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