A Wish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKLK MAMA NBNB BOBO PQPQ RLRJ SQTQ UAUA IVIW| I ask not that my bed of death | A |
| From bands of greedy heirs be free | B |
| For these besiege the latest breath | A |
| Of fortune's favoured sons not me | B |
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| I ask not each kind soul to keep | C |
| Tearless when of my death he hears | D |
| Let those who will if any weep | C |
| There are worse plagues on earth than tears | E |
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| I ask but that my death may find | F |
| The freedom to my life denied | G |
| Ask but the folly of mankind | F |
| Then at last to quit my side | G |
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| Spare me the whispering crowded room | H |
| The friends who come and gape and go | I |
| The ceremonious air of gloom | H |
| All which makes death a hideous show | I |
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| Nor bring to see me cease to live | J |
| Some doctor full of phrase and fame | K |
| To shake his sapient head and give | L |
| The ill he cannot cure a name | K |
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| Nor fetch to take the accustomed toll | M |
| Of the poor sinner bound for death | A |
| His brother doctor of the soul | M |
| To canvass with official breath | A |
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| The future and its viewless things | N |
| That undiscovered mystery | B |
| Which one who feels death's winnowing wings | N |
| Must need read clearer sure than he | B |
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| Bring none of these but let me be | B |
| While all around in silence lies | O |
| Moved to the window near and see | B |
| Once more before my dying eyes | O |
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| Bathed in the sacred dew of morn | P |
| The wide aerial landscape spread | Q |
| The world which was ere I was born | P |
| The world which lasts when I am dead | Q |
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| Which never was the friend of one | R |
| Nor promised love it could not give | L |
| But lit for all its generous sun | R |
| And lived itself and made us live | J |
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| There let me gaze till I become | S |
| In soul with what I gaze on wed | Q |
| To feel the universe my home | T |
| To have before my mind instead | Q |
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| Of the sick room the mortal strife | U |
| The turmoil for a little breath | A |
| The pure eternal course of life | U |
| Not human combatings with death | A |
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| Thus feeling gazing let me grow | I |
| Composed refreshed ennobled clear | V |
| Then willing let my spirit go | I |
| To work or wait elsewhere or here | W |
Matthew Arnold
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