The Tramp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH EBEBB IJIJJ| Eagerly he took my dime | A |
| Then shuffled on his way | B |
| Thick with sin and filth and grime | A |
| But I wondered all that day | B |
| How the man had gone astray | B |
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| Not to him the dime I gave | C |
| Not unto the man of woe | D |
| Not to him who should be brave | C |
| Not to him who'd sunk so low | D |
| But the boy of long ago | D |
| - | |
| Passed his years of sin and shame | E |
| Through the filth that all could see | F |
| Out of what he is there came | E |
| One more pitiful to me | F |
| Came the boy that used to be | F |
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| Smiling full of promise glad | G |
| Stood a baby like my own | H |
| I beheld a glorious lad | G |
| Someone once had loved and known | H |
| Out of which this wreck had grown | H |
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| Where thought I must lie the blame | E |
| Who has failed in such a way | B |
| As all children come he came | E |
| There's a soul within his clay | B |
| Who has led his feet astray | B |
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| As he shuffled down the hall | I |
| With the coin I'd never miss | J |
| What thought I were fame and all | I |
| Man may gain of earthly bliss | J |
| If my child should come to this | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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