A Last Word Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBBDBDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZA2B2RYIO C2VD2| OH for some cup of consummating might | A |
| Filled with life's kind conclusion lost in night | A |
| A wine of darkness that with death shall cure | B |
| This sickness called existence Oh to find | C |
| Surcease of sorrow quiet for the mind | C |
| An end of thought in something dark and sure | B |
| Mandrake and hellebore or poison pure | B |
| Some drug of death wherein there are no dreams | D |
| No more no more with patience to endure | B |
| The wrongs of life the hate of men it seems | D |
| Or wealth's authority tyranny of time | E |
| And lamentations and the boasts of man | F |
| To hear no more the wild complaints of toil | G |
| And struggling merit that unknown must starve | H |
| To see no more life's disregard for Art | I |
| Oh God to know no longer anything | J |
| Nor good nor evil or what either means | K |
| Nor hear the changing tides of customs roll | L |
| On the dark shores of Time No more to hear | M |
| The stream of Life that furies on the shoals | N |
| Of hard necessity No more to see | O |
| The unavailing battle waged of Need | P |
| Against adversity Merely to lie at last | Q |
| Pulseless and still at peace beneath the sod | R |
| To think and dream no more no more to hope | S |
| At rest at last at last at peace and rest | T |
| Clasped by some kind tree's gnarled arm of root | U |
| Bearing me upward in its large embrace | V |
| To gentler things and fairer clouds and winds | W |
| And stars and sun and moon To undergo | X |
| The change the great trees know when Spring comes in | Y |
| With shoutings and rejoicings of the rain | Z |
| To swiftly rise an atom in a host | A2 |
| The myriad army of the leaves and stand | B2 |
| A handsbreadth nearer Heaven and what is God | R |
| To pulse in sap that beats unfevered in | Y |
| The life we call inanimate the heart | I |
| Of some great tree And so unconsciously | O |
| As sleeps a child clasped in its mother's arm | C2 |
| Be taken back in amplitudes of grace | V |
| To Nature's heart and so be lost in her | D2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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