Poverty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAJKAKA| I saw an old cottage of clay | A |
| And only of mud was the floor | B |
| It was all falling into decay | A |
| And the snow drifted in at the door | B |
| - | |
| Yet there a poor family dwelt | C |
| In a hovel so dismal and rude | D |
| And though gnawing hunger they felt | C |
| They had not a morsel of food | D |
| - | |
| The children were crying for bread | E |
| And to their poor mother they d run | F |
| Oh give us some breakfast they said | E |
| Alas their poor mother had none | F |
| - | |
| She viewed them with looks of despair | G |
| She said and I m sure it was true | H |
| Tis not for myself that I care | G |
| But my poor little children for you | H |
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| O then let the wealthy and gay | A |
| But see such a hovel as this | I |
| That in a poor cottage of clay | A |
| They may know what true misery is | J |
| And what I may have to bestow | K |
| I never will squander away | A |
| While many poor people I know | K |
| Around me are wretched as they | A |
Jane Taylor
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