Atra Cura Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADD EFFGHH IIJJKK| Before I lost my five poor wits | A |
| I mind me of a Romish clerk | B |
| Who sang how Care the phantom dark | C |
| Beside the belted horseman sits | A |
| Methought I saw the grisly sprite | D |
| Jump up but now behind my Knight | D |
| - | |
| And though he gallop as he may | E |
| I mark that cursed monster black | F |
| Still sits behind his honor's back | F |
| Tight squeezing of his heart alway | G |
| Like two black Templars sit they there | H |
| Beside one crupper Knight and Care | H |
| - | |
| No knight am I with pennoned spear | I |
| To prance upon a bold destrere | I |
| I will not have black Care prevail | J |
| Upon my long eared charger's tail | J |
| For lo I am a witless fool | K |
| And laugh at Grief and ride a mule | K |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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