A Tragedy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHJ FKFK LMLM| Among his books he sits all day | A |
| To think and read and write | B |
| He does not smell the new mown hay | A |
| The roses red and white | B |
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| I walk among them all alone | C |
| His silly stupid wife | D |
| The world seems tasteless dead and done | E |
| An empty thing is life | D |
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| At night his window casts a square | F |
| Of light upon the lawn | G |
| I sometimes walk and watch it there | F |
| Until the chill of dawn | G |
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| I have no brain to understand | H |
| The books he loves to read | I |
| I only have a heart and hand | H |
| He does not seem to need | J |
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| He calls me Child lays on my hair | F |
| Thin fingers cold and mild | K |
| Oh God of Love who answers prayer | F |
| I wish I were a child | K |
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| And no one sees and no one knows | L |
| He least would know or see | M |
| That ere Love gathers next year's rose | L |
| Death will have gathered me | M |
Edith Nesbit
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