Richard Cory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HEHE| Whenever Richard Cory went down town | A |
| We people on the pavement looked at him | B |
| He was a gentleman from sole to crown | A |
| Clean favored and imperially slim | B |
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| And he was always quietly arrayed | C |
| And he was always human when he talked | D |
| But still he fluttered pulses when he said | E |
| Good morning and he glittered when he walked | D |
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| And he was rich yes richer than a king | F |
| And admirably schooled in every grace | G |
| In fine we thought that he was everything | F |
| To make us wish that we were in his place | G |
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| So on we worked and waited for the light | H |
| And went without the meat and cursed the bread | E |
| And Richard Cory one calm summer night | H |
| Went home and put a bullet through his head | E |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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