The Reckoning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHIJAll profits disappear the gain | A |
Of ease the hoarded secret sum | B |
And now grim digits of old pain | A |
Return to litter up our home | C |
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We hunt the cause of ruin add | D |
Subtract and put ourselves in pawn | E |
For all our scratching on the pad | D |
We cannot trace the error down | F |
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What we are seeking is a fare | G |
One way a chance to be secure | H |
The lack that keeps us what we are | I |
The penny that usurps the poor | J |
Theodore Roethke
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