The Cheat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCAA DDEE FFGG HIJJ| I cheated a good friend yesterday | A |
| Kept what was his and went my way | A |
| Wronged him by silence for in haste | B |
| I let a glad thought go to waste | B |
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| I had a word of cheer to speak | C |
| To strengthen him when he grew weak | C |
| To send him smiling on his way | A |
| But what I thought I didn't say | A |
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| He would have richer been to know | D |
| That deed of his had pleased me so | D |
| But oh I failed to let him see | E |
| How much his conquest meant to me | E |
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| I cheated him of words of praise | F |
| Which would have cheered his troubled days | F |
| In this a faithful friend I wronged | G |
| By keeping what to him belonged | G |
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| The praise was his by right to hear | H |
| To him belonged my word of cheer | I |
| In silence though from him I turned | J |
| And cheated him of what he'd earned | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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