Poet Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson

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My Tenants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGBHHIIJ JKKLLGGMMAANN MMOOPPAABB

I never had a title deedA
To my estate But little heedA
Eyes give to me when I walk byB
My fields to see who occupyB
Some clumsy men who lease and hireC
And cut my trees to feed their fireC
Own all the land that I possessD
And tax my tenants to distressD
And if I say I had been firstE
And reaping left for them the worstE
That they were beggars at the handsF
Of dwellers on my royal landsF
With idle laugh of passing scornG
As unto words of madness bornG
They would replyB
I do not careH
They cannot crowd the charm d airH
They cannot touch the bonds I holdI
On all that they have bought and soldI
They can waylay my faithful beesJ
Who lulled to sleep with fatal easeJ
Are robbe Is one day's honey sweetK
Thus snatched All summer round my feetK
In golden drifts from plumy wingsL
In shining drops on fragrant thingsL
Free gift it came to me My cornG
With burnished banners morn by mornG
Comes out to meet and honor meM
The glittering ranks spread royallyM
Far as I walk When hasty greedA
Tramples it down for food and seedA
I with a certain veiled delightN
Hear half the crop is lost by blightN
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Letter of the law these may fulfilM
Plant where they like slay what they willM
Count up their gains and make them greatO
Nevertheless the whole estateO
Always belongs to me and mineP
We are the only royal lineP
And though I have no title deedA
My tenants pay me royal heedA
When our sweet fields I wander byB
To see what strangers occupyB

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