A Lay Of Real Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CB DDDE FFFE GGEE HHHE IIIJ KKKL MMMN OOOE PPPE QQQE RRRE SSST UUUVSome are born with a wooden spoon in their mouths | A |
and some with a golden ladle GOLDSMITH | B |
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Some are born with tin rings in their noses and | C |
with silver ones SILVERSMITH | B |
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Who ruined me ere I was born | D |
Sold every acre grass or corn | D |
And left the next heir all forlorn | D |
My Grandfather | E |
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Who said my mother was no nurse | F |
And physicked me and made me worse | F |
Till infancy became a curse | F |
My Grandmother | E |
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Who left me in my seventh year | G |
A comfort to my mother dear | G |
And Mr Pope the overseer | E |
My Father | E |
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Who let me starve to buy her gin | H |
Till all my bones came through my skin | H |
Then called me ugly little sin | H |
My Mother | E |
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Who said my mother was a Turk | I |
And took me home and made me work | I |
But managed half my meals to shirk | I |
My Aunt | J |
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Who of all earthly things would boast | K |
He hated others' brats the most | K |
And therefore made me feel my post | K |
My Uncle | L |
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Who got in scrapes an endless score | M |
And always laid them at my door | M |
Till many a bitter bang I bore | M |
My Cousin | N |
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Who took me home when mother died | O |
Again with father to reside | O |
Black shoes clean knives run far and wide | O |
My Stepmother | E |
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Who marred my stealthy urchin joys | P |
And when I played cried What a noise | P |
Girls always hector over boys | P |
My Sister | E |
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Who used to share in what was mine | Q |
Or took it all did he incline | Q |
'Cause I was eight and he was nine | Q |
My Brother | E |
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Who stroked my head and said Good lad | R |
And gave me sixpence all he had | R |
But at the stall the coin was bad | R |
My Godfather | E |
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Who gratis shared my social glass | S |
But when misfortune came to pass | S |
Referr'd me to the pump Alas | S |
My Friend | T |
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Through all this weary world in brief | U |
Who ever sympathized with grief | U |
Or shared my joy my sole relief | U |
Myself | V |
Thomas Hood
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