Lottery Ticket Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDECC DDFGGF HHIJJI| 'A ticket for the lottery | A |
| I've purchased every week ' said she | A |
| 'For years a score | B |
| Though desperately poor am I | C |
| Oh how I've scrimped and scraped to buy | C |
| One chance more | B |
| - | |
| Each week I think I'll gain the prize | D |
| And end my sorrows and my sighs | D |
| For I'll be rich | E |
| Then nevermore I'll eat bread dry | C |
| With icy hands to cry and cry | C |
| And stitch and stitch ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Tis true she won the premier prize | D |
| It was of formidable size | D |
| Ten million francs | F |
| I know because the man who sold | G |
| It to her splenically told | G |
| He got no thanks | F |
| - | |
| The lucky one was never found | H |
| For she was snugly underground | H |
| And minus breath | I |
| And with that ticket tucked away | J |
| In some old stocking so they say | J |
| She starved to death | I |
Robert Service
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