A Legacy. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH DIDI DDDD| Ah Postumus we all must go | A |
| This keen North Easter nips my shoulder | B |
| My strength begins to fail I know | A |
| You find me older | B |
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| I've made my Will Dear faithful friend | C |
| My Muse's friend and not my purse's | D |
| Who still would hear and still commend | C |
| My tedious verses | D |
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| How will you live of these deprived | E |
| I've learned your candid soul The venal | F |
| The sordid friend had scarce survived | E |
| A test so penal | F |
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| But you Nay nay 'tis so The rest | G |
| Are not as you you hide your merit | H |
| You more than all deserve the best | G |
| True friends inherit | H |
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| Not gold that hearts like yours despise | D |
| Not spacious dirt your own expression | I |
| No but the rarer dearer prize | D |
| The Life's Confession | I |
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| You catch my thought What Can't you guess | D |
| You you alone admired my Cantos | D |
| I've left you P my whole MS | D |
| In three portmanteaus | D |
Henry Austin Dobson
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