The Damned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DDEED FFGGF HHIIJJI| My days are haunted by the thought | A |
| Of men in coils of Justice caught | B |
| With stone and steel in chain and cell | C |
| Of men condemned to living hell | C |
| Yet blame them not | B |
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| In my sun joy their dark I see | D |
| For what they are and had to be | D |
| Blame Nature red in tooth and claw | E |
| Blame laws beyond all human law | E |
| Blame Destiny | D |
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| Behind blind walls I see them go | F |
| Grim spectres of eternal woe | F |
| Drained grey of hope dead souls of self slain | G |
| And yet I know with pang of pain | G |
| It must be so | F |
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| I know that brother's blood they've spilt | H |
| And sons of Cain must pay their guilt | H |
| I know the deviltries that stem | I |
| From dark abyss we must condemn | I |
| I know that but for heaven's grace | J |
| We might be rotting in their place | J |
| God pity them | I |
Robert Service
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