Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD BEBF GBGH CAFB BGIJ| Staring corpselike at the ceiling | A |
| See his harsh unrazored features | B |
| Ghastly brown against the pillow | C |
| And his throat so strangely bandaged | D |
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| Lack of work and lack of victuals | B |
| A debauch of smuggled whisky | E |
| And his children in the workhouse | B |
| Made the world so black a riddle | F |
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| That he plunged for a solution | G |
| And although his knife was edgeless | B |
| He was sinking fast towards one | G |
| When they came and found and saved him | H |
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| Stupid now with shame and sorrow | C |
| In the night I hear him sobbing | A |
| But sometimes he talks a little | F |
| He has told me all his troubles | B |
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| In his broad face tanned and bloodless | B |
| White and wild his eyeballs glisten | G |
| And his smile occult and tragic | I |
| Yet so slavish makes you shudder | J |
William Ernest Henley
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