Sorrows Of Werther, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CBDB EEFE CBGB| Werther had a love for Charlotte | A |
| Such as words could never utter | B |
| Would you know how first he met her | B |
| She was cutting bread and butter | B |
| - | |
| Charlotte was a married lady | C |
| And a moral man was Werther | B |
| And for all the wealth of Indies | D |
| Would do nothing for to hurt her | B |
| - | |
| So he sigh'd and pined and ogled | E |
| And his passion boil'd and bubbled | E |
| Till he blew his silly brains out | F |
| And no more was by it troubled | E |
| - | |
| Charlotte having seen his body | C |
| Borne before her on a shutter | B |
| Like a well conducted person | G |
| Went on cutting bread and butter | B |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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