The Body To The Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDCEEEEF BGHHGIIIIG BJHHJEEEEK BLIILMNNII BNEENHHHHBRESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO AN OVERWORKED STUDENT | A |
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O tyrant soul of mine | B |
What's the use | C |
Of this never ceasing toil | D |
Of this struggle this turmoil | D |
This abuse | C |
Of the body and the brain | E |
Of this labor and this pain | E |
Of this never ceasing strain | E |
On the cords that bind us twain | E |
Each to each | F |
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O tyrant soul of mine | B |
Is it well | G |
Thus to waste and wear away | H |
The poor fragile walls of clay | H |
Where you dwell | G |
Was I made your slave to be | I |
I the abject you the free | I |
That you task me ceaselessly | I |
Tyrant soul come answer me | I |
Is it well | G |
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O tyrant soul of mine | B |
Don't you know | J |
That in slow but sure decay | H |
I am wasting day by day | H |
While you grow | J |
None the better for the strain | E |
On my nerves and on my brain | E |
For my head's incessant pain | E |
And my sick heart's longings vain | E |
For repose | K |
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O tyrant soul of mine | B |
God the good | L |
Joined together you and me | I |
In a wondrous unity | I |
That we should | L |
Work together not that I | M |
You degrade and stupefy | N |
Nor that you His laws defy | N |
By maltreating ceaselessly | I |
Hapless me | I |
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O tyrant soul of mine | B |
By and by | N |
Weary of your cruel reign | E |
Quite worn out with toil and pain | E |
I shall die | N |
Then when I have passed away | H |
And you're asked whose hand did slay | H |
Your companion of the clay | H |
Much I wonder what you'll say | H |
Soul of mine | B |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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