Who's Who Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGGHE| A shilling life will give you all the facts | A |
| How Father beat him how he ran away | B |
| What were the struggles of his youth what acts | A |
| Made him the greatest figure of his day | B |
| Of how he fought fished hunted worked all night | C |
| Though giddy climbed new mountains named a sea | D |
| Some of the last researchers even write | C |
| Love made him weep his pints like you and me | D |
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| With all his honours on he sighed for one | E |
| Who say astonished critics lived at home | F |
| Did little jobs about the house with skill | G |
| And nothing else could whistle would sit still | G |
| Or potter round the garden answered some | H |
| Of his long marvellous letters but kept none | E |
W. H. Auden
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