Lear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBCDEDFEGA poor old king with sorrow for my crown | A |
Throned upon straw and mantled with the wind | B |
For pity my own tears have made me blind | B |
That I might never see my children's frown | A |
And may be madness like a friend has thrown | C |
A folded fillet over my dark mind | B |
So that unkindly speech may sound for kind | B |
Albeit I know not I am childish grown | C |
And have not gold to purchase wit withal | D |
I that have once maintain'd most royal state | E |
A very bankrupt now that may not call | D |
My child my child all beggar'd save in tears | F |
Wherewith I daily weep an old man's fate | E |
Foolish and blind and overcome with years | G |
Thomas Hood
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