The Garret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE DDDGHHHG IIIJKKKJ| Within a London garret high | A |
| Above the roofs and near the sky | A |
| My ill rewarding pen I ply | A |
| To win me bread | B |
| This little chamber six by four | C |
| Is castle study den and more | C |
| Altho' no carpet decks the floor | C |
| Nor down the bed | B |
| - | |
| My room is rather bleak and bare | D |
| I only have one broken chair | D |
| But then there's plenty of fresh air | D |
| Some light beside | E |
| What tho' I cannot ask my friends | F |
| To share with me my odds and ends | F |
| A liberty my aerie lends | F |
| To most denied | E |
| - | |
| The bore who falters at the stair | D |
| No more shall be my curse and care | D |
| And duns shall fail to find my lair | D |
| With beastly bills | G |
| When debts have grown and funds are short | H |
| I find it rather pleasant sport | H |
| To live above the common sort | H |
| With all their ills | G |
| - | |
| I write my rhymes and sing away | I |
| And dawn may come or dusk or day | I |
| Tho' fare be poor my heart is gay | I |
| And full of glee | J |
| Though chimney pots be all my views | K |
| 'T is nearer for the winging Muse | K |
| So I am sure she 'll not refuse | K |
| To visit me | J |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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