The Poor Man's Guest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI AJA BKBKONE came to me in royal guise | A |
With banners flying fair and free | B |
But many griefs had made me wise | A |
And I refused to bow the knee | B |
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Then one drew near who bore the flower | C |
Of all the flowers of June and May | D |
But many griefs had lent me power | C |
And I was strong to turn away | D |
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Then came a beggar to my gate | E |
With shoulders bowed to sorrow's pack | F |
So weary and so desolate | G |
I had no heart to turn him back | F |
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I let him share my board my bed | H |
I warmed him in my shrinking breast | I |
I gave him all I had and said | H |
'You only you have been my guest | I |
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'Love passed in many a fair disguise | A |
But never could an entrance win | J |
But you came in such piteous wise | A |
Poor friend I could but let you in ' | - |
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Low laughed my guest 'Kind friend ' said he | B |
And dropped the rags he was weary of | K |
And I betrayed saw over me | B |
The terrible face of outraged Love | K |
Edith Nesbit
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