Poverty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FEFGHIHII 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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