The Murdered Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG HIHI AJAJ AKAK ABAB| Say a mass for my soul's repose my brother | A |
| Say a mass for my soul's repose I need it | B |
| Lovingly lived we the sons of one mother | A |
| Mine was the sin but I pray you not heed it | B |
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| Dark were her eyes as the sloe and they called me | C |
| Called me with voice independent of breath | D |
| God how my heart beat her beauty appalled me | C |
| Dazed me and drew to the sea brink of death | D |
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| Lithe was her form like a willow She beckoned | E |
| What could I do save to follow and follow | F |
| Nothing of right or result could be reckoned | E |
| Life without her was unworthy and hollow | F |
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| Ay but I wronged thee my brother my brother | A |
| Ah but I loved her thy beautiful wife | G |
| Shade of our father and soul of our mother | A |
| Have I not paid for my love with my life | G |
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| Dark was the night when revengeful I met you | H |
| Deep in the heart of a desolate land | I |
| Warm was the life blood which angrily wet you | H |
| Sharp was the knife that I felt from your hand | I |
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| Wept you oh wept you alone by the river | A |
| When my stark carcass you secretly sank | J |
| Ha now I see that you tremble and shiver | A |
| 'T was but my spirit that passed when you shrank | J |
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| Weep not oh weep not 't is over 't is over | A |
| Stir the dark weeds with the turn of the tide | K |
| Go thou hast sent me forth ever a rover | A |
| Rest and the sweet realm of heaven denied | K |
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| Say a mass for my soul's repose my brother | A |
| Say a mass for my soul I need it | B |
| Sin of mine was it and sin of no other | A |
| Mine was it all but I pray you not heed it | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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