Poverty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FEFGHIHI| I hate this grinding poverty | A |
| To toil and pinch and borrow | B |
| And be for ever haunted by | C |
| The spectre of to morrow | B |
| It breaks the strong heart of a man | D |
| It crushes out his spirit | E |
| Do what he will do what he can | D |
| However high his merit | E |
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| I hate the praise that Want has got | F |
| From preacher and from poet | E |
| The cant of those who know it not | F |
| To blind the men who know it | G |
| The greatest curse since man had birth | H |
| An everlasting terror | I |
| The cause of half the crime on earth | H |
| The cause of half the error | I |
Henry Lawson
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