Poverty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAJKAKAI 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Isatou jambang: It's true that is the term geographer's use to describe life where malnutrition, illiteracy, disease and infant mortality are high life expectancy low.
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