The Heap Of Rags Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGEEHHII JJKKLLMMNO| One night when I went down | A |
| Thames' side in London Town | A |
| A heap of rags saw I | B |
| And sat me down close by | B |
| That thing could shout and bawl | C |
| But showed no face at all | C |
| When any steamer passed | D |
| And blew a loud shrill blast | D |
| That heap of rags would sit | E |
| And make a sound like it | E |
| When struck the clock's deep bell | F |
| It made those peals as well | F |
| When winds did moan around | G |
| It mocked them with that sound | G |
| When all was quiet it | E |
| Fell into a strange fit | E |
| Would sigh and moan and roar | H |
| It laughed and blessed and swore | H |
| Yet that poor thing I know | I |
| Had neither friend nor foe | I |
| Its blessin or its curse | J |
| Made no one better or worse | J |
| I left it in that place | K |
| The thing that showed no face | K |
| Was it a man that had | L |
| Suffered till he went mad | L |
| So many showers and not | M |
| One rainbow in the lot | M |
| Too many bitter fears | N |
| To make a pearl from tears | O |
William Henry Davies
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