Upon The Punishment Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACCDEFGHIH| YE brood of conscience Spectres that frequent | A |
| The bad Man's restless walk and haunt his bed | B |
| Fiends in your aspect yet beneficent | A |
| In act as hovering Angels when they spread | B |
| Their wings to guard the unconscious Innocent | A |
| Slow be the Statutes of the land to share | C |
| A laxity that could not but impair | C |
| 'Your' power to punish crime and so prevent | D |
| And ye Beliefs coiled serpent like about | E |
| The adage on all tongues 'Murder will out ' | F |
| How shall your ancient warnings work for good | G |
| In the full might they hitherto have shown | H |
| If for deliberate shedder of man's blood | I |
| Survive not Judgment that requires his own | H |
William Wordsworth
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