Truly Great Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON CPQP| My walls outside must have some flowers | A |
| My walls within must have some books | B |
| A house that's small a garden large | C |
| And in it leafy nooks | B |
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| A little gold that's sure each week | D |
| That comes not from my living kind | E |
| But from a dead man in his grave | F |
| Who cannot change his mind | E |
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| A lovely wife and gentle too | G |
| Contented that no eyes but mine | H |
| Can see her many charms nor voice | I |
| To call her beauty fine | H |
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| Where she would in that stone cage live | J |
| A self made prisoner with me | K |
| While many a wild bird sang around | L |
| On gate on bush on tree | K |
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| And she sometimes to answer them | M |
| In her far sweeter voice than all | N |
| Till birds that loved to look on leaves | O |
| Will doat on a stone wall | N |
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| With this small house this garden large | C |
| This little gold this lovely mate | P |
| With health in body peace in heart | Q |
| Show me a man more great | P |
William Henry Davies
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