To W. A. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDEDE FBCB GHGIGI JBCB| Or ever the knightly years were gone | A |
| With the old world to the grave | B |
| I was a King in Babylon | C |
| And you were a Christian Slave | B |
| - | |
| I saw I took I cast you by | D |
| I bent and broke your pride | E |
| You loved me well or I heard them lie | D |
| But your longing was denied | E |
| Surely I knew that by and by | D |
| You cursed your gods and died | E |
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| And a myriad suns have set and shone | F |
| Since then upon the grave | B |
| Decreed by the King in Babylon | C |
| To her that had been his Slave | B |
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| The pride I trampled is now my scathe | G |
| For it tramples me again | H |
| The old resentment lasts like death | G |
| For you love yet you refrain | I |
| I break my heart on your hard unfaith | G |
| And I break my heart in vain | I |
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| Yet not for an hour do I wish undone | J |
| The deed beyond the grave | B |
| When I was a King in Babylon | C |
| And you were a Virgin Slave | B |
William Ernest Henley
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