Interior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCG HIJK LFCF| The gaunt brown walls | A |
| Look infinite in their decent meanness | B |
| There is nothing of home in the noisy kettle | C |
| The fulsome fire | D |
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| The atmosphere | E |
| Suggests the trail of a ghostly druggist | F |
| Dressings and lint on the long lean table | C |
| Whom are they for | G |
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| The patients yawn | H |
| Or lie as in training for shroud and coffin | I |
| A nurse in the corridor scolds and wrangles | J |
| It's grim and strange | K |
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| Far footfalls clank | L |
| The bad burn waits with his head unbandaged | F |
| My neighbour chokes in the clutch of chloral | C |
| O a gruesome world | F |
William Ernest Henley
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