Cui Bono Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECEFGHG IJCJKCLCMNON PQRQSTUTVWXW YZCZGA2B2C2D2CE2C| Oh wind that whistles o'er thorns and thistles | A |
| Of this fruitful earth like a goblin elf | B |
| Why should he labour to help his neighbour | C |
| Who feels too reckless to help himself | B |
| The wail of the breeze in the bending trees | D |
| Is something between a laugh and a groan | E |
| And the hollow roar of the surf on the shore | C |
| Is a dull discordant monotone | E |
| I wish I could guess what sense they express | F |
| There's a meaning doubtless in every sound | G |
| Yet no one can tell and it may be as well | H |
| Whom would it profit The world goes round | G |
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| On this earth so rough we know quite enough | I |
| And I sometimes fancy a little too much | J |
| The sage may be wiser than clown or than kaiser | C |
| Is he more to be envied for being such | J |
| Neither more nor less in his idleness | K |
| The sage is doom'd to vexation sure | C |
| The kaiser may rule but the slippery stool | L |
| That he calls his throne is no sinecure | C |
| And as for the clown you may give him a crown | M |
| Maybe he'll thank you and maybe not | N |
| And before you can wink he may spend it in drink | O |
| To whom does it profit We ripe and rot | N |
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| Yet under the sun much work is done | P |
| By clown and kaiser by serf and sage | Q |
| All sow and some reap and few gather the heap | R |
| Of the garner'd grain of a by gone age | Q |
| By sea or by soil man is bound to toil | S |
| And the dreamer waiting for time and tide | T |
| For awhile may shirk his share of the work | U |
| But he grows with his dream dissatisfied | T |
| He may climb to the edge of the beetling ledge | V |
| Where the loose crag topples and well nigh reels | W |
| 'Neath the lashing gale but the tonic will fail | X |
| What does it profit Wheels within wheels | W |
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| Aye work we must or with idlers rust | Y |
| And eat we must our bodies to nurse | Z |
| Some folk grow fatter what does it matter | C |
| I'm blest if I do quite the reverse | Z |
| 'Tis a weary round to which we are bound | G |
| The same thing over and over again | A2 |
| Much toil and trouble and a glittering bubble | B2 |
| That rises and bursts is the best we gain | C2 |
| And we murmur and yet 'tis certain we get | D2 |
| What good we deserve can we hope for more | C |
| They are roaring those waves in their echoing caves | E2 |
| To whom do they profit Let them roar | C |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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