The Right To Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPFQR| I have no fancy for that ancient cant | A |
| That makes us masters of our destinies | B |
| And not our lives to hold or give them up | C |
| As will directs I cannot will not think | D |
| That men the subtle worms who plot and plan | E |
| And scheme and calculate with such shrewd wit | F |
| Are such great blund'ring fools as not to know | G |
| When they have lived enough | H |
| Men court not death | I |
| When there are sweets still left in life to taste | J |
| Nor will a brave man choose to live when he | K |
| Full deeply drunk of life has reached the dregs | L |
| And knows that now but bitterness remains | M |
| He is the coward who outfaced in this | N |
| Fears the false goblins of another life | O |
| I honor him who being much harassed | P |
| Drinks of sweet courage until drunk of it | F |
| Then seizing Death reluctant by the hand | Q |
| Leaps with him fearless to eternal peace | R |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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