The Claim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKCK LMLM| OH I admit I'm dull and poor | A |
| And plain and gloomy as you tell me | B |
| And dozens flock around your door | C |
| Who in all points but one excel me | B |
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| You smile on them on me you frown | D |
| They worship for the wage you pay | E |
| I lay life love and honour down | D |
| For you to walk on every day | E |
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| I am the only one who sees | F |
| That though such gifts can never move you | G |
| A meagre price are gifts like these | F |
| For life's high privilege to love you | G |
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| I am the one among your train | H |
| Who sees that loving you is worth | I |
| A thousand times the certain gain | H |
| Of all the heaped up joys of earth | I |
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| And you who know as well as I | J |
| What your glass tells you every morning | K |
| A kindred soul you should descry | C |
| Dilute with sympathy your scorning | K |
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| At least you should approve the intense | L |
| Love that gives all for you to waste | M |
| Your other lovers have more sense | L |
| Admit that I have better taste | M |
Edith Nesbit
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