Troubled With The Itch, And Rubbing Sulfur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI HJHJ KLKL| 'Tis bitter yet 'tis sweet | A |
| Scratching effects but transient ease | B |
| Pleasure and pain together meet | A |
| And vanish as they please | B |
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| My nails the only balm | C |
| To ev'ry bump are oft applied | D |
| And thus the rage will sweetly calm | C |
| Which aggravates my hide | D |
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| It soon returns again | E |
| A frown succeeds to ev'ry smile | F |
| Grinning I scratch and curse the pain | G |
| But grieve to be so vile | F |
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| In fine I know not which | H |
| Can play the most deceitful game | I |
| The devil sulphur or the itch | H |
| The three are but the same | I |
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| The devil sows the itch | H |
| And sulphur has a loathsome smell | J |
| And with my clothes as black as pitch | H |
| I stink where'er I dwell | J |
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| Excoriated deep | K |
| By friction play'd on ev'ry part | L |
| It oft deprives me of my sleep | K |
| And plagues me to my heart | L |
George Moses Horton
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