Lear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBCDEDFEG

A poor old king with sorrow for my crownA
Throned upon straw and mantled with the windB
For pity my own tears have made me blindB
That I might never see my children's frownA
And may be madness like a friend has thrownC
A folded fillet over my dark mindB
So that unkindly speech may sound for kindB
Albeit I know not I am childish grownC
And have not gold to purchase wit withalD
I that have once maintain'd most royal stateE
A very bankrupt now that may not callD
My child my child all beggar'd save in tearsF
Wherewith I daily weep an old man's fateE
Foolish and blind and overcome with yearsG

Thomas Hood



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