There's A Regret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC DEED FGGF HIIH JKKJ LMML| There's a regret | A |
| So grinding so immitigably sad | B |
| Remorse thereby feels tolerant even glad | B |
| Do you not know it yet | A |
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| For deeds undone | C |
| Rnakle and snarl and hunger for their due | D |
| Till there seems naught so despicable as you | D |
| In all the grin o' the sun | C |
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| Like an old shoe | D |
| The sea spurns and the land abhors you lie | E |
| About the beach of Time till by and by | E |
| Death that derides you too | D |
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| Death as he goes | F |
| His ragman's round espies you where you stray | G |
| With half an eye and kicks you out of his way | G |
| And then and then who knows | F |
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| But the kind Grave | H |
| Turns on you and you feel the convict Worm | I |
| In that black bridewell working out his term | I |
| Hanker and grope and crave | H |
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| Poor fool that might | J |
| That might yet would not dared not let this be | K |
| Think of it here and thus made over to me | K |
| In the implacable night | J |
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| And writhing fain | L |
| And like a triumphing lover he shall take | M |
| His fill where no high memory lives to make | M |
| His obscene victory vain | L |
William Ernest Henley
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