The Pauper's Funeral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGGGHHIIJJ KL MMED| What and not one to heave the pious sigh | A |
| Not one whose sorrow swoln and aching eye | A |
| For social scenes for life's endearments fled | B |
| Shall drop a tear and dwell upon the dead | B |
| Poor wretched Outcast I will weep for thee | C |
| And sorrow for forlorn humanity | C |
| Yes I will weep but not that thou art come | D |
| To the stern Sabbath of the silent tomb | E |
| For squalid Want and the black scorpion Care | F |
| Heart withering fiends shall never enter there | F |
| I sorrow for the ills thy life has known | G |
| As thro' the world's long pilgrimage alone | G |
| Haunted by Poverty and woe begone | G |
| Unloved unfriended thou didst journey on | G |
| Thy youth in ignorance and labour past | H |
| And thine old age all barrenness and blast | H |
| Hard was thy Fate which while it doom'd to woe | I |
| Denied thee wisdom to support the blow | I |
| And robb'd of all its energy thy mind | J |
| Ere yet it cast thee on thy fellow kind | J |
| Abject of thought the victim of distress | K |
| To wander in the world's wide wilderness | L |
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| Poor Outcast sleep in peace the wintry storm | M |
| Blows bleak no more on thine unshelter'd form | M |
| Thy woes are past thou restest in the tomb | E |
| I pause and ponder on the days to come | D |
Robert Southey
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