The End Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| My father got me strong and straight and slim | A |
| And I give thanks to him | A |
| My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet | B |
| I kiss her feet | B |
| - | |
| But now with me their generation fails | C |
| And nevermore avails | C |
| To cast through me the ancient mould again | D |
| Such women and men | D |
| - | |
| I have no son whose life of flesh and fire | E |
| Sprang from my splendid sire | E |
| No daughter for whose soul my mother's flesh | F |
| Wrought raiment fresh | F |
| - | |
| Life's venerable rhythms like a flood | G |
| Beat in my brain and blood | G |
| Crying from all the generations past | H |
| Is this the last | H |
| - | |
| And I make answer to my haughty dead | I |
| Who made me heart and head | I |
| Even the sunbeams falter flicker and bend | J |
| I am the end | J |
Marguerite Wilkinson
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