A Youth's Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC BDBC DEDC EDEC FGFC| He handed his life a poisoned draught | A |
| With a scornful smile and a cold cold glance | B |
| And the merry bystanders loudly laughed | A |
| For the rollicking world was gay | C |
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| He thought she knew not the juice perchance | B |
| But her tears fell down to her sobbing lips | D |
| While the merry makers turned to the dance | B |
| The world was mocking fate that day | C |
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| To his life he kissed his finger tips | D |
| Drink deep the beaker and so farewell | E |
| Then slowly the poisoned draught she sips | D |
| How they laugh at her meek dismay | C |
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| He sprang to her arm which loosely fell | E |
| Crying No not yet that dire eclipse | D |
| Now loud laughed the dancers and whirled pell mell | E |
| While the echoes hurried away | C |
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| The mad world clustered it seemed around | F |
| Farewell she sighed sinking then from afar | G |
| Flowed the pealing laughter and wassail's sound | F |
| For the dead the world will not stay | C |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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