The Eviction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB JKJK| Unruly tenant of my heart | A |
| Full fain would I be quit of thee | B |
| I've played too long a losing part | A |
| Thou bringest me neither gold nor fee | B |
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| 'Tis time thou shouldst thy holding yield | C |
| Thy will and mine no longer meet | D |
| With cockle hast thou sowed my field | C |
| With squanderings all the public street | D |
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| Thy presence doth disturb my pride | E |
| Let me be owner of my own | F |
| I fling thee with thy goods outside | E |
| And bar re entry with a stone | F |
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| Begone and hide thee from my face | G |
| I will not see thee chiding there | H |
| Away to live in my disgrace | G |
| Away to die in thy despair | H |
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| O impotence of human wit | I |
| The law is mine the fault in thee | B |
| And yet in vain I serve the writ | I |
| In vain I scourge thee with decree | B |
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| For lo in stillness of the night | J |
| O'erturning stone and guard and door | K |
| Thou art come with thy lost tenant right | J |
| And hast possession as before | K |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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