Remorse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGDG HIHIJKJK ALALDMDM| None ever knew I had wronged her | A |
| That secret she kept to the end | B |
| None knew that our ties had been stronger | A |
| Than such as should bind friend to friend | B |
| Her beauty and innocence gave her | A |
| Such charms as are lavished on few | C |
| And vain was my earnest endeavour | A |
| To resist though I strove to be true | C |
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| She had given her heart to my keeping | D |
| 'Twas a treasure more precious than gold | E |
| And I guarded it waking or sleeping | D |
| Lest a strange breath should make it grow cold | E |
| And I longed to be tender yet honest | F |
| Alas loved where to love was a sin | G |
| And passion was deaf to the warning | D |
| Of a still small voice crying within | G |
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| I feasted my eyes on her beauty | H |
| I ravished my ears with her voice | I |
| And I felt as her bosom rose softly | H |
| That my heart had at last found its choice | I |
| 'Twas a wild gust of passion swept o'er us | J |
| Just a flash of tumultuous bliss | K |
| Then life's sunlight all vanished before us | J |
| And we stood by despair's dark abyss | K |
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| 'Tis past and the green grass grows over | A |
| The grave that hides her and our shame | L |
| None ever knew who was her lover | A |
| For her lips never uttered his name | L |
| But at night when the city is sleeping | D |
| I steal with a tremulous tread | M |
| And spend the dark solemn hours weeping | D |
| O'er the grave of the deeply wronged dead | M |
John Hartley
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