He Came To Pay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP QLQLRSRS TUTUVWVW| The editor sat with his head in his hands | A |
| And his elbows at rest on his knees | B |
| He was tired of the ever increasing demands | A |
| On his time and he panted for ease | B |
| The clamor for copy was scorned with a sneer | C |
| And he sighed in the lowest of tones | D |
| Won't somebody come with a dollar to cheer | C |
| The heart of Emanuel Jones | D |
| - | |
| Just then on the stairway a footstep was heard | E |
| And a rap a tap loud at the door | F |
| And the flickering hope that had been long deferred | E |
| Blazed up like a beacon once more | F |
| And there entered a man with a cynical smile | G |
| That was fringed with a stubble of red | H |
| Who remarked as he tilted a sorry old tile | G |
| To the back of an average head | H |
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| I have come here to pay Here the editor cried | I |
| You're as welcome as flowers in spring | J |
| Sit down in this easy armchair by my side | I |
| And excuse me awhile till I bring | J |
| A lemonade dashed with a little old wine | K |
| And a dozen cigars of the best | L |
| Ah Here we are This I assure you is fine | K |
| Help yourself most desirable guest | L |
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| The visitor drank with a relish and smoked | M |
| Till his face wore a satisfied glow | N |
| And the editor beaming with merriment joked | M |
| In a joyous spontaneous flow | N |
| And then when the stock of refreshments was gone | O |
| His guest took occasion to say | P |
| In accents distorted somewhat by a yawn | O |
| My errand up here is to pay | P |
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| But the generous scribe with a wave of his hand | Q |
| Put a stop to the speech of his guest | L |
| And brought in a melon the finest the land | Q |
| Ever bore on its generous breast | L |
| And the visitor wearing a singular grin | R |
| Seized the heaviest half of the fruit | S |
| And the juice as it ran in a stream from his chin | R |
| Washed the mud of the pike from his boot | S |
| - | |
| Then mopping his face on a favorite sheet | T |
| Which the scribe had laid carefully by | U |
| The visitor lazily rose to his feet | T |
| With the dreariest kind of a sigh | U |
| And he said as the editor sought his address | V |
| In his books to discover his due | W |
| I came here to pay my respects to the press | V |
| And to borrow a dollar of you | W |
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