A Curse On A Closed Gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEF AAA| Be this the fate | A |
| Of the man who would shut his gate | A |
| On the stranger gentle or simple early or late | A |
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| When his mouth with a day's long hunger and thirst would wish | B |
| For the savour of salted fish | B |
| Let him sit and eat his fill of an empty dish | B |
| - | |
| To the man of that ilk | C |
| Let water stand in his churn instead of milk | C |
| That turns a calf's coat silk | C |
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| And under the gloomy night | D |
| May never a thatch made tight | D |
| Shut out the clouds from his sight | D |
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| Above the ground or below it | E |
| Good cheer may he never know it | E |
| Nor a tale by the fire nor a dance on the road nor a song by a wandering poet | F |
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| Till he open his gate | A |
| To the stranger early or late | A |
| And turn back the stone of his fate | A |
James H. Cousins
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