The Expiration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDECC| So so break off this last lamenting kiss | A |
| Which sucks two souls and vapors both away | B |
| Turn thou ghost that way and let me turn this | A |
| And let our selves benight our happiest day | B |
| We ask none leave to love nor will we owe | C |
| Any so cheap a death as saying Go | C |
| Go and if that word have not quite kil'd thee | D |
| Ease me with death by bidding me go too | E |
| Oh if it have let my word work on me | D |
| And a just office on a murderer do | E |
| Except it be too late to kill me so | C |
| Being double dead going and bidding go | C |
John Donne
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