Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DECC FEGF HHII IJKC| Hatred and vengence my eternal portion | A |
| Scarce can endure delay of execution | A |
| Wait with impatient readiness to seize my | B |
| Soul in a moment | C |
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| Damned below Judas more abhorred than he was | D |
| Who for a few pence sold his holy Master | E |
| Twice betrayed Jesus me the last delinquent | C |
| Deems the profanest | C |
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| Man disavows and Deity disowns me | F |
| Hell might afford my miseries a shelter | E |
| Therefore Hell keeps her ever hungry mouths all | G |
| Bolted against me | F |
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| Hard lot encompassed with a thousand dangers | H |
| Weary faint trembling with a thousand terrors | H |
| I'm called if vanquished to receive a sentence | I |
| Worse than Abiram's | I |
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| Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice | I |
| Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong | J |
| I fed with judgment in a fleshy tomb am | K |
| Buried above ground | C |
William Cowper
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