Tired Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFBBGGHH IJKKFFBB| tired out Yet face and brow | A |
| Do not look aweary now | A |
| And the eyelids lie like two | B |
| Pure white rose leaves washed with dew | B |
| Was her life so hard a task | C |
| Strange that we forget to ask | C |
| What the lips now dumb for aye | D |
| Could have told us yesterday | E |
| - | |
| Tired out A faded scrawl | F |
| Pinned upon the ragged shawl | F |
| Nothing else to leave a clue | B |
| Even of a friend or two | B |
| Who might come to fold the hands | G |
| Or smooth back the dripping strands | G |
| Of her tresses or to wet | H |
| Them anew with fond regret | H |
| - | |
| Tired out We can but guess | I |
| Of her little happiness | J |
| Long ago in some fair land | K |
| When a lover held her hand | K |
| In the dream that frees us all | F |
| Soon or later from its thrall | F |
| Be it either false or true | B |
| We at last must tire too | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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