Before Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC A DEFF A GGH G IIHH G JJKK G FFJJ G LLKK G MMJJ J JJNN J OOJJ| I | A |
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| Let them fight it out friend things have gone too far | B |
| God must judge the couple leave them as they are | B |
| Whichever one's the guiltless to his glory | C |
| And whichever one the guilt's with to my story | C |
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| II | A |
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| Why you would not bid men sunk in such a slough | D |
| Strike no arm out further stick and stink as now | E |
| Leaving right and wrong to settle the embroilment | F |
| Heaven with snaky hell in torture and entoilment | F |
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| III | A |
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| Who's the culprit of them How must he conceive | G |
| God the queen he caps to laughing in his sleeve | G |
| 'Tis but decent to profess oneself beneath her | H |
| Still one must not be too much in earnest either '' | - |
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| IV | G |
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| Better sin the whole sin sure that God observes | I |
| Then go live his life out Life will try his nerves | I |
| When the sky which noticed all makes no disclosure | H |
| And the earth keeps up her terrible composure | H |
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| V | G |
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| Let him pace at pleasure past the walls of rose | J |
| Pluck their fruits when grape trees graze him as he goes | J |
| For he 'gins to guess the purpose of the garden | K |
| With the sly mute thing beside there for a warden | K |
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| VI | G |
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| What's the leopard dog thing constant at his side | F |
| A leer and lie in every eye of its obsequious hide | F |
| When will come an end to all the mock obeisance | J |
| And the price appear that pays for the misfeasance | J |
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| VII | G |
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| So much for the culprit Who's the martyred man | L |
| Let him bear one stroke more for be sure he can | L |
| He that strove thus evil's lump with good to leaven | K |
| Let him give his blood at last and get his heaven | K |
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| VIII | G |
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| All or nothing stake it Trust she God or no | M |
| Thus far and no farther farther be it so | M |
| Now enough of your chicane of prudent pauses | J |
| Sage provisos sub intents and saving clauses | J |
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| IX | J |
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| Ah forgive'' you bid him While God's champion lives | J |
| Wrong shall be resisted dead why he forgives | J |
| But you must not end my friend ere you begin him | N |
| Evil stands not crowned on earth while breath is in him | N |
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| X | J |
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| Once more Will the wronger at this last of all | O |
| Dare to say I did wrong '' rising in his fall | O |
| No Let go then Both the fighters to their places | J |
| While I count three step you back as many paces | J |
Robert Browning
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