Penny Wise, Pound Poor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGEFEH FBFIJF KFCLMNFOL FLPQFRSTQUFF| Fall was a tubercular cousin | A |
| residing in the country | B |
| sparse hair | C |
| rasping cough | D |
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| Night air was damaging | E |
| stringing pumpkins | F |
| around orange chains the | G |
| milkweed pod shivering | E |
| in open shirtsleeves | F |
| little noises sifting | E |
| from burrows in her chest | H |
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| Fall was | F |
| reputedly from another country | B |
| wore glaring cravats | F |
| gold leaf and Rubenesque chain | I |
| stalked the lark | J |
| mocked the breeze | F |
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| Penny wise pound poor | K |
| leaves | F |
| a shock of hair | C |
| prematurely white | L |
| degradingly picked from | M |
| the comb | N |
| flung out fireflies | F |
| crisp bodies to singe | O |
| fire cold light | L |
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| Advancing stairs | F |
| in poor light | L |
| the season became makeshift | P |
| wallpaper | Q |
| hung by tedious hands | F |
| Little seep of plaster dirt | R |
| escaping the touch | S |
| grass bristled by frost | T |
| where occasional flower | Q |
| was torched with cold | U |
| savaged bees | F |
| stumbled from the weeds | F |
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