Poverty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAJKAKA

I saw an old cottage of clayA
And only of mud was the floorB
It was all falling into decayA
And the snow drifted in at the doorB
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Yet there a poor family dweltC
In a hovel so dismal and rudeD
And though gnawing hunger they feltC
They had not a morsel of foodD
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The children were crying for breadE
And to their poor mother they d runF
Oh give us some breakfast they saidE
Alas their poor mother had noneF
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She viewed them with looks of despairG
She said and I m sure it was trueH
Tis not for myself that I careG
But my poor little children for youH
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O then let the wealthy and gayA
But see such a hovel as thisI
That in a poor cottage of clayA
They may know what true misery isJ
And what I may have to bestowK
I never will squander awayA
While many poor people I knowK
Around me are wretched as theyA

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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