Which Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFHII JKJKLMLMNONOPPQQ| Who then is rich who poor I'll tell you now | A |
| Of one a meagre life who had to live | B |
| Wear dingy garb and scarcely could allow | A |
| Himself what men call comfort yet to give | C |
| Was his delight to give full heartedly | D |
| Though Fate had hampered him he always knew | E |
| Some one still poorer In humility | D |
| He thus gave hope to him who had small view | E |
| Of happier things solace to him who wept | F |
| And to the beaten courage to endure | G |
| He shared his little with the starved and kept | F |
| His best for those who needed most Though poor | H |
| By giving he grew richer day by day | I |
| In all that brightens life's uncertain way | I |
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| There was another who had never known | J |
| A wish unsatisfied For everything | K |
| That luxury could offer was his own | J |
| Thus all that learning all that wealth could bring | K |
| Adorned his life The many him would praise | L |
| For this world loves the prosperous and still | M |
| Close to himself he hugged his all To raise | L |
| A helping hand he never had the will | M |
| He never heard the cries of men in need | N |
| Of all he had he would not give a part | O |
| For I and mine was ever his one creed | N |
| No balm had he for any aching heart | O |
| Mean was his life as was the other's great | P |
| Despite the splendor of his high estate | P |
| And now in yonder world I wonder which | Q |
| For both are dead is counted poor or rich | Q |
Helen Leah Reed
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