A Confession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGH IIJKKJ LLMNNM| These are the facts I was to blame | A |
| I brought her here and wrought her shame | A |
| She came with me all trustingly | B |
| Lovely and innocent her face | C |
| And in her perfect form the grace | C |
| Of purity and modesty | D |
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| I think I loved her then 'would dote | E |
| On her ambrosial breast and throat | E |
| Young as a blossom's tenderness | F |
| Her eyes that were both glad and sad | G |
| Her cheeks and chin that dimples had | G |
| Her mouth red ripe to kiss and kiss | H |
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| Three months passed by three moons of fire | I |
| When in me sickened all desire | I |
| And in its place a devil who | J |
| Filled all my soul with deep disgust | K |
| And on the victim of my lust | K |
| Turned eyes of loathing swiftly grew | J |
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| One night when by my side she slept | L |
| I rose and leaning while I kept | L |
| The dagger hid I kissed her hair | M |
| And throat and when she smiled asleep | N |
| Into her heart I drove it deep | N |
| And left her dead still smiling there | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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