Bewick Finzer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJGJGJ GGKGLG MNGNON| Time was when his half million drew | A |
| The breath of six per cent | B |
| But soon the worm of what was not | C |
| Fed hard on his content | B |
| And something crumbled in his brain | D |
| When his half million went | B |
| - | |
| Time passed and filled along with his | E |
| The place of many more | F |
| Time came and hardly one of us | G |
| Had credence to restore | F |
| From what appeared one day the man | H |
| Whom we had known before | F |
| - | |
| The broken voice the withered neck | I |
| The coat worn out with care | J |
| The cleanliness of indigence | G |
| The brilliance of despair | J |
| The fond imponderable dreams | G |
| Of affluence all were there | J |
| - | |
| Poor Finzer with his dreams and schemes | G |
| Fares hard now in the race | G |
| With heart and eye that have a task | K |
| When he looks in the face | G |
| Of one who might so easily | L |
| Have been in Finzer's place | G |
| - | |
| He comes unfailing for the loan | M |
| We give and then forget | N |
| He comes and probably for years | G |
| Will he be coming yet | N |
| Familiar as an old mistake | O |
| And futile as regret | N |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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