The Spendthrift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGGCCHH| HE died a poor man so they say | A |
| Few were the dollars stored away | A |
| By him while he lived and yet | B |
| His memory I'll not forget | B |
| A spendthrift True but not for self | C |
| He scattered thus his hard earned pelf | C |
| Not that he might in splendor roam | D |
| But for the ones he loved at home | D |
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| A spendthrift That he was for those | E |
| Who weeping watched his eyelids close | F |
| For them he toiled for them he spent | G |
| His pittance and was well content | G |
| The best in life to them he gave | C |
| Denied them nothing just to save | C |
| For those at home his coin he blew | H |
| I would the world more spendthrifts knew | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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