The Idiot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBDE EFGHEHIE JKLKMKCE HNOEOPQR RSETHTER| He stands on the kerb | A |
| Watching the street | B |
| He's always watching there | C |
| Listening to the beat | B |
| Of time in the street | B |
| Listening to the thronging feet | B |
| Laughing at the world that goes | D |
| Scowling or laughing by | E |
| - | |
| He sees Time go by | E |
| An old lonely man | F |
| Crooked and furtive and slow | G |
| He laughs as he sees | H |
| Time shambling by | E |
| While he stands at his ease | H |
| Until Time smiles wanly back | I |
| At his laughing eye | E |
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| Greed's great paunch | J |
| Lean Envy's ill looks | K |
| Fond forgetful Love | L |
| He reads them like books | K |
| Whatever their tongue | M |
| He reads them like children's books | K |
| Stands staring and laughing there | C |
| As all they go by | E |
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| O he laughs as he sees | H |
| The fat and the thin | N |
| The simple the solemn and wise | O |
| Nod nodding by | E |
| He stares in their eyes | O |
| Till they're angry and murmur Poor fool | P |
| And he hears and he laughs again | Q |
| From the depth of his folly | R |
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| Even when with heavy | R |
| Plume and pall | S |
| The sleeky coaches roll by | E |
| Coffin flowers and all | T |
| He laughs for he sees | H |
| Crouched on the coffin a small | T |
| Yellowy shape go by | E |
| Death uneasy and melancholy | R |
John Freeman
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