A Worn-out Pencil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC DDDEE AAADD AAAFF AAAAA GGBAA HHHAA| Welladay | A |
| Here I lay | B |
| You at rest all worn away | B |
| O my pencil to the tip | C |
| Of our old companionship | C |
| - | |
| Memory | D |
| Sighs to see | D |
| What you are and used to be | D |
| Looking backward to the time | E |
| When you wrote your earliest rhyme | E |
| - | |
| When I sat | A |
| Filing at | A |
| Your first point and dreaming that | A |
| Your initial song should be | D |
| Worthy of posterity | D |
| - | |
| With regret | A |
| I forget | A |
| If the song be living yet | A |
| Yet remember vaguely now | F |
| It was honest anyhow | F |
| - | |
| You have brought | A |
| Me a thought | A |
| Truer yet was never taught | A |
| That the silent song is best | A |
| And the unsung worthiest | A |
| - | |
| So if I | G |
| When I die | G |
| May as uncomplainingly | B |
| Drop aside as now you do | A |
| Write of me as I of you | A |
| - | |
| Here lies one | H |
| Who begun | H |
| Life a singing heard of none | H |
| And he died satisfied | A |
| With his dead songs by his side | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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