Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DECC FEGF HHII IJKCHatred 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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