If, After All ...! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIAJK LMLANBLOJPQ BRSJ| This life I squander hating the long days | A |
| That will not bring me either Rest or Thee | B |
| This health I hack and ravage as with knives | C |
| These nerves I fain would shatter and this heart | D |
| I fain would break this heart that traitor like | E |
| Beats on with foolish and elastic beat | F |
| If after all this life I waste and kill | G |
| Should still be thine may still be lived for thee | B |
| And this the dreadful trial of my love | H |
| This silence and this blank that makes me mad | I |
| That I be man to day of all the days | A |
| My one poor hope of meeting thee again | J |
| If Death be Love and God's great purpose kind | K |
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| Oh love if some day on the heavenly stair | L |
| A wild ecstatic moment we should stand | M |
| And I all hungry for your eyes and hair | L |
| Should meet instead your great accusing gaze | A |
| And hear instead of welcome into heaven | N |
| 'Ah hadst thou but been true but manfully | B |
| Borne the high pangs that all high souls must bear | L |
| Nor fled to low nepenthes for your pain | O |
| Hadst said Is she not here more reason then | J |
| To live as though still guarded by her eyes | P |
| Cleaner my thought and purer be my deed | Q |
| True will I be though God Himself be false ' | - |
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| Oh hadst thou thus been man to day had we | B |
| Walked on together undivided now | R |
| But now a thousand flaming years must pass | S |
| And all the trial be gone o'er again | J |
Richard Le Gallienne
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