Last Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI| Aye heartbreak of the tattered hills | A |
| And mourning of the raining sky | B |
| Heartbreak and mourning since God wills | A |
| Are mine and God knows why | B |
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| The brutal wind that herds the storm | C |
| In hail big clouds that freeze along | D |
| As this gray heart are doubly warm | C |
| With thrice the joy of song | D |
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| I held one dearer than each day | E |
| Of life God sets in limpid gold | F |
| What thief hath stole that gem away | E |
| To leave me poor and old | F |
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| The heartbreak of the hills be mine | G |
| Of trampled twig and mired leaf | H |
| Of rain that sobs through thorn and pine | G |
| An unavailing grief | H |
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| The sorrow of the childless skies' | A |
| Good nights long said yet never said | I |
| As when I kissed my child's blue eyes | A |
| And lips ice dumb and dead | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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