The Spiteful Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GBHB IBIB JKLK IMNM| Here it is here the close of the year | A |
| And with it a spiteful letter | B |
| My name in song has done him much wrong | C |
| For himself has done much better | B |
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| O little bard is your lot so hard | D |
| If men neglect your pages | E |
| I think not much of yours or of mine | F |
| I hear the roll of the ages | E |
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| Rhymes and rhymes in the range of the times | G |
| Are mine for the moment stronger | B |
| Yet hate me not but abide your lot | H |
| I last but a moment longer | B |
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| This faded leaf our names are as brief | I |
| What room is left for a hater | B |
| Yet the yellow leaf hates the greener leaf | I |
| For it hangs one moment later | B |
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| Greater than I is that your cry | J |
| And men will live to see it | K |
| Well if it be so so it is you know | L |
| And if it be so so be it | K |
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| Brief brief is a summer leaf | I |
| But this is the time of hollies | M |
| O hollies and ivies and evergreens | N |
| How I hate the spites and the follies | M |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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