Francis Thompson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HIIH JKKJ LAAL MNNM MOPA| Thou hadst no home and thou couldst see | A |
| In every street the windows' light | B |
| Dragging thy limbs about all night | B |
| No window kept a light for thee | A |
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| However much thou wert distressed | C |
| Or tired of moving and felt sick | D |
| Thy life was on the open deck | E |
| Thou hadst no cabin for thy rest | C |
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| Thy barque was helpless 'neath the sky | F |
| No pilot thought thee worth his pains | G |
| To guide for love or money gains | G |
| Like phantom ships the rich sailed by | F |
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| Thy shadow mocked thee night and day | H |
| Thy life's companion it alone | I |
| It did not sigh it did not moan | I |
| But mocked thy moves in every way | H |
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| In spite of all the mind had force | J |
| And like a stream whose surface flows | K |
| The wrong way when a strong wind blows | K |
| It underneath maintained its course | J |
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| Oft didst thou think thy mind would flower | L |
| Too late for good as some bruised tree | A |
| That blooms in Autumn and we see | A |
| Fruit not worth picking hard and sour | L |
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| Some poets feign their wounds and scars | M |
| If they had known real suffering hours | N |
| They'd show in place of Fancy's flowers | N |
| More of Imagination's stars | M |
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| So if thy fruits of Poesy | M |
| Are rich it is at this dear cost | O |
| That they were nipt by Sorrow's frost | P |
| In nights of homeless misery | A |
William Henry Davies
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