A Happy Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GHII| When these graven lines you see | A |
| Traveller do not pity me | A |
| Though I be among the dead | B |
| Let no mournful word be said | B |
| - | |
| Children that I leave behind | C |
| And their children all were kind | C |
| Near to them and to my wife | D |
| I was happy all my life | D |
| - | |
| My three sons I married right | E |
| And their sons I rocked at night | E |
| Death nor sorrow never brought | F |
| Cause for one unhappy thought | F |
| - | |
| Now and with no need of tears | G |
| Here they leave me full of years | H |
| Leave me to my quiet rest | I |
| In the region of the blest | I |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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