A Rusty Nail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEEECC FGFGHH IJIJAEAE| I ran a nail into my hand | A |
| The wound was hard to heal | B |
| So bitter was the pain to stand | A |
| I thought how it would feel | B |
| To have spikes thrust through hands and feet | C |
| Impaled by hammer beat | C |
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| Then hoisted on a cross of oak | D |
| Against the sullen sky | E |
| With all about the jeering follk | E |
| Who joyed to see me die | E |
| Die hardly in insensate heat | C |
| With bleeding hands and feet | C |
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| Yet was it not that day of Fate | F |
| Of cruelty insane | G |
| Climaxing centuries of hate | F |
| That woke our souls to pain | G |
| And are we not the living seed | H |
| Of those who did the deed | H |
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| Of course with thankful heart I know | I |
| We are not fiends as then | J |
| And in a thousand years or so | I |
| We may be gentle men | J |
| But it has cost a poisoned hand | A |
| And pain beyond a cry | E |
| To make me strangely understand | A |
| A Cross against the sky | E |
Robert Service
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