Before Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEFGEG| Behold me waiting waiting for the knife | A |
| A little while and at a leap I storm | B |
| The thick sweet mystery of chloroform | B |
| The drunken dark the little death in life | A |
| The gods are good to me I have no wife | A |
| No innocent child to think of as I near | C |
| The fateful minute nothing all too dear | C |
| Unmans me for my bout of passive strife | A |
| Yet am I tremulous and a trifle sick | D |
| And face to face with chance I shrink a little | E |
| My hopes are strong my will is something weak | F |
| Here comes the basket Thank you I am ready | G |
| But gentlemen my porters life is brittle | E |
| You carry Caesar and his fortunes steady | G |
William Ernest Henley
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