The Wedding Ring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHIJ KLKLMM NHNHOO PQPRKK| I pawned my sick wife's wedding ring | A |
| To drink and make myself a beast | B |
| I got the most that it would bring | A |
| Of golden coins the very least | B |
| With stealth into her room I crept | C |
| And stole it from her as she slept | C |
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| I do not think that she will know | D |
| As in its place I left a band | E |
| Of brass that has a brighter glow | D |
| And gleamed upon her withered hand | E |
| I do not think that she can tell | F |
| The change she does not see too well | F |
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| Pray God she doesn't find me out | G |
| I'd rather far I would be dead | H |
| Yet yesterday she seemed to doubt | G |
| And looking at me long she said | H |
| My finger must have shrunk because | I |
| My ring seems bigger than it was | J |
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| She gazed at it so wistfully | K |
| And one big tear rolled down her cheek | L |
| Said she You'll bury it with me | K |
| I was so moved I could not speak | L |
| Oh wretched me How whisky can | M |
| Bring out the devil in a man | M |
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| And yet I know she loves me still | N |
| As on the morn that we were wed | H |
| And darkly guess I also will | N |
| Be doomed the day that she is dead | H |
| And yet I swear before she's gone | O |
| I will retrieve her ring from pawn | O |
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| I'll get it though I have to steal | P |
| Then when to ease her bitter pain | Q |
| They give her sleep oh I will feel | P |
| Her hand and slip it on again | R |
| Through tears her wasted face I'll see | K |
| And pray to God Oh pity me | K |
Robert Service
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