Worn Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLFM NOPP PAQA| You bid me hold my peace | A |
| And dry my fruitless tears | B |
| Forgetting that I bear | C |
| A pain beyond my years | D |
| - | |
| You say that I should smile | E |
| And drive the gloom away | F |
| I would but sun and smiles | G |
| Have left my life's dark day | F |
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| All time seems cold and void | H |
| And naught but tears remain | I |
| Life's music beats for me | J |
| A melancholy strain | I |
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| I used at first to hope | K |
| But hope is past and gone | L |
| And now without a ray | F |
| My cheerless life drags on | M |
| - | |
| Like to an ash stained hearth | N |
| When all its fires are spent | O |
| Like to an autumn wood | P |
| By storm winds rudely shent | P |
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| So sadly goes my heart | P |
| Unclothed of hope and peace | A |
| It asks not joy again | Q |
| But only seeks release | A |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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