And So It Ends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JJKLMM NNCCOO| And so it ends | A |
| We who were lovers may be friends | A |
| I have some weeks in which to steel | B |
| My heart and teach myself to feel | B |
| Only a sober tenderness | C |
| Where once was passion's loveliness | C |
| - | |
| I had not thought that there would come | D |
| Your touch to make our music dumb | D |
| Your meeting touch upon the string | E |
| That still was vibrant still could sing | E |
| When I impatiently might wait | F |
| Or parted from you at the gate | F |
| - | |
| You took me weak and unprepared | G |
| I had not thought that you who shared | G |
| My days my nights my heart my life | H |
| Would slash me with a naked knife | H |
| And gently tell me not to bleed | I |
| But to accept your crazy creed | I |
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| You speak of God but you have cut | J |
| The one last thread as you have shut | J |
| The one last door that open stood | K |
| To show me still the way to God | L |
| If this be God this pain this evil | M |
| I'd sooner change and try the Devil | M |
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| Darling I thought of nothing mean | N |
| I thought of killing straight and clean | N |
| You're safe that's gone that wild caprice | C |
| But tell me once before I cease | C |
| Which does your Church esteem the kinder role | O |
| To kill the body or destroy the soul | O |
Victoria Sackville-west
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