Rich And Poor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD BB AA EE FF GG HH II BB JJ KK LL BB MN AA BB GG OO PQ| By the castle gate my lady stands | A |
| Viewing broad acres and spreading lands | A |
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| Hill and valley and mead and plain | B |
| Are all her own with their wealth of grain | B |
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| In the richest of rich robes she is dressed | C |
| A jewel blazes upon her breast | C |
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| And her brow is decked with a diadem | D |
| That glitters with many a precious gem | D |
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| But what to the Lady Wendoline | B |
| Rich satin garments or jewels fine | B |
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| Or ripening harvests or spreading lands | A |
| See she is wringing her milk white hands | A |
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| And her finger is stained with crimson dew | E |
| Where the ring with the diamond star cut through | E |
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| And a look of pain and wild despair | F |
| Rests on the face so young and fair | F |
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| To morrow will be her bridal day | G |
| And she will barter herself away | G |
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| For added wealth and a titled name | H |
| 'Tis the curse of her station and whose the blame | H |
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| She loathes the man who will call her wife | I |
| And moans o'er her hapless loveless life | I |
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| The joys of wooing she cannot know | B |
| My lord her father has willed it so | B |
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| She's a piece of merchandise bought and sold | J |
| For name position and bags of gold | J |
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| But people must wed in their own degree | K |
| Though hearts may break in their agony | K |
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| Under the hill in the castle's shade | L |
| At a cottage door sits an humble maid | L |
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| In her cheek the blushes come and go | B |
| As she stitches away on a robe like snow | B |
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| And she sings aloud in her happiness | M |
| In a joy she cannot hide or repress | N |
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| Close at her side her lover stands | A |
| Watching the nimble sun browned hands | A |
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| As they draw the needle to and fro | B |
| Through the robe as white as drift of snow | B |
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| Both hearts are singing a wordless lay | G |
| For the morrow will be their bridal day | G |
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| They have only their hands their love their health | O |
| In place of title position and wealth | O |
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| But which is the rich and which the poor | P |
| The maid at the gate or the maid in the door | Q |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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