A King's Gratitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEDEFGFG| Plain men have fitful moods and so have Kings | A |
| For Kings are only men and often made | B |
| Of clay as common as e'er stained a spade | B |
| But when the great are moody then the strings | A |
| Of gilded harps are smitten and their strains | C |
| Are soft and soothing as the Summer rains | C |
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| And Saul was taken by an evil mood | D |
| He felt within himself his spirit faint | E |
| In vain he tossed upon his couch and wooed | D |
| Refreshing slumbers Sleep knows no constraint | E |
| Then David came his physic and advice | F |
| All in a harp and cleared the mind of Saul | G |
| And Saul thereafter launched his javelin twice | F |
| To nail the harper to the palace wall | G |
James Barron Hope
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