Who I Know Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JGKL| I do not know his grace the Duke | A |
| Outside whose gilded gate there died | B |
| Of want a feeble poor old man | C |
| With but his shadow at his side | B |
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| I do not know his Lady fair | D |
| Who in a bath of milk doth lie | E |
| More milk than could feed fifty babes | F |
| That for the want of it must die | E |
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| But well I know the mother poor | G |
| Three pounds of flesh wrapped in her shawl | H |
| A puny babe that stripped at home | I |
| Looks like a rabbit skinned so small | H |
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| And well I know the homeless waif | J |
| Fed by the poorest of the poor | G |
| Since I have seen that child alone | K |
| Crying against a bolted door | L |
William Henry Davies
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