Death And The Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF| TURN in my lord she said | A |
| As it were the Father of Sin | B |
| I have hated the Father of the Dead | A |
| The slayer of my kin | B |
| By the Father of the Living led | A |
| Turn in my lord turn in | B |
| - | |
| We were foes of old thy touch was cold | C |
| But mine is warm as life | D |
| I have struggled and made thee loose thy hold | C |
| I have turned aside the knife | D |
| Despair itself in me was bold | C |
| I have striven and won the strife | D |
| - | |
| But that which conquered thee and rose | E |
| Again to earth descends | F |
| For the last time we have come to blows | E |
| And the long combat ends | F |
| The worst and secretest of foes | E |
| Be now my friend of friends | F |
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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