The Man Who Couldn't Save Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGHIJ KKLLMMN OOPPMMQQ RRSSTTUU| He spent what he made or he gave it away | A |
| Tried to save money and would for a day | A |
| Started a bank account time an' again | B |
| Got a hundred or so for a nest egg an' then | B |
| Some fellow that needed it more than he did | C |
| Who was down on his luck with a sick wife or kid | C |
| Came along an' he wasted no time till he went | D |
| An' drew out the coin that for saving was meant | D |
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| They say he died poor and I guess that is so | E |
| To pile up a fortune he hadn't a show | E |
| He worked all the time and good money he made | F |
| Was known as an excellent man at his trade | F |
| But he saw too much heard too much felt too much here | G |
| To save anything by the end of the year | H |
| An' the shabbiest wreck the Lord ever let live | I |
| Could get money from him if he had it to give | J |
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| I've seen him slip dimes to the bums on the street | K |
| Who told him they hungered for something to eat | K |
| An' though I remarked they were going for drink | L |
| He'd say 'Mebbe so But I'd just hate to think | L |
| That fellow was hungry an' I'd passed him by | M |
| I'd rather be fooled twenty times by a lie | M |
| Than wonder if one of 'em I wouldn't feed | N |
| Had told me the truth an' was really in need ' | - |
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| Never stinted his family out of a thing | O |
| They had everything that his money could bring | O |
| Said he'd rather be broke and just know they were glad | P |
| Than rich with them pining an' wishing they had | P |
| Some of the pleasures his money would buy | M |
| Said he never could look a bank book in the eye | M |
| If he knew it had grown on the pleasures and joys | Q |
| That he'd robbed from his wife and his girls and his boys | Q |
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| Queer sort of notion he had I confess | R |
| Yet many a rich man on earth is mourned less | R |
| All who had known him came back to his side | S |
| To honor his name on the day that he died | S |
| Didn't leave much in the bank it is true | T |
| But did leave a fortune in people who knew | T |
| The big heart of him an' I'm willing to swear | U |
| That to day he is one of the richest up there | U |
Edgar Albert Guest
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