The Helpless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBB DEFGBB| Those poor heartbroken wretches doomed | A |
| To hear at night the clocks' hard tones | B |
| They have no beds to warm their limbs | C |
| But with those limbs must warm cold stones | B |
| Those poor weak men whose coughs and ailings | B |
| Force them to tear at iron railings | B |
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| Those helpless men that starve my pity | D |
| Whose waking day is never done | E |
| Who save for their own shadows are | F |
| Doomed night and day to walk alone | G |
| They know no bright face but the sun's | B |
| So cold and dark are human ones | B |
William Henry Davies
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