My Tenants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGBHHIIJ JKKLLGGMMAANN MMOOPPAABB| I never had a title deed | A |
| To my estate But little heed | A |
| Eyes give to me when I walk by | B |
| My fields to see who occupy | B |
| Some clumsy men who lease and hire | C |
| And cut my trees to feed their fire | C |
| Own all the land that I possess | D |
| And tax my tenants to distress | D |
| And if I say I had been first | E |
| And reaping left for them the worst | E |
| That they were beggars at the hands | F |
| Of dwellers on my royal lands | F |
| With idle laugh of passing scorn | G |
| As unto words of madness born | G |
| They would reply | B |
| I do not care | H |
| They cannot crowd the charm d air | H |
| They cannot touch the bonds I hold | I |
| On all that they have bought and sold | I |
| They can waylay my faithful bees | J |
| Who lulled to sleep with fatal ease | J |
| Are robbe Is one day's honey sweet | K |
| Thus snatched All summer round my feet | K |
| In golden drifts from plumy wings | L |
| In shining drops on fragrant things | L |
| Free gift it came to me My corn | G |
| With burnished banners morn by morn | G |
| Comes out to meet and honor me | M |
| The glittering ranks spread royally | M |
| Far as I walk When hasty greed | A |
| Tramples it down for food and seed | A |
| I with a certain veiled delight | N |
| Hear half the crop is lost by blight | N |
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| Letter of the law these may fulfil | M |
| Plant where they like slay what they will | M |
| Count up their gains and make them great | O |
| Nevertheless the whole estate | O |
| Always belongs to me and mine | P |
| We are the only royal line | P |
| And though I have no title deed | A |
| My tenants pay me royal heed | A |
| When our sweet fields I wander by | B |
| To see what strangers occupy | B |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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