A Fragment Of A Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFF GG HH II AJKK LLMNNOPQ PPRRSSTTUUVVWX EDYZA2B2 C2 YB2 D2D2E2 F2PJE2DEG2G2 H2H2I2I2 EEI2I2YY YYJ2J2K2K2 FFL2M2 YYN2ZH2H2A2JKKO2P2Q2 Q2| O Wretched B jealous now of all | A |
| What god what mortal shall prevent thy fall | A |
| Turn turn thy eyes from wicked men in place | B |
| And see what succour from the patriot race | B |
| C his own proud dupe thinks monarchs things | C |
| Made just for him as other fools for kings | C |
| Controls decides insults thee every hour | D |
| And antedates the hatred due to power | D |
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| Through clouds of passion P 's views are clear | E |
| He foams a patriot to subside a peer | E |
| Impatient sees his country bought and sold | F |
| And damns the market where he takes no gold | F |
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| Grave righteous S jogs on till past belief | G |
| He finds himself companion with a thief | G |
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| To purge and let thee blood with fire and sword | H |
| Is all the help stern S would afford | H |
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| That those who bind and rob thee would not kill | I |
| Good C hopes and candidly sits still | I |
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| Of Ch s W who speaks at all | A |
| No more than of Sir Har y or Sir P | J |
| Whose names once up they thought it was not wrong | K |
| To lie in bed but sure they lay too long | K |
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| G r C m B t pay thee due regards | L |
| Unless the ladies bid them mind their cards | L |
| with wit that must | M |
| And C d who speaks so well and writes | N |
| Whom saving W every S harper bites | N |
| must needs | O |
| Whose wit and equally provoke one | P |
| Finds thee at best the butt to crack his joke on | Q |
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| As for the rest each winter up they run | P |
| And all are clear and something must be done | P |
| Then urged by C t or by C t stopp'd | R |
| Inflamed by P and by P dropp'd | R |
| They follow reverently each wondrous wight | S |
| Amazed that one can read that one can write | S |
| So geese to gander prone obedience keep | T |
| Hiss if he hiss and if he slumber sleep | T |
| Till having done whate'er was fit or fine | U |
| Utter'd a speech and ask'd their friends to dine | U |
| Each hurries back to his paternal ground | V |
| Content but for five shillings in the pound | V |
| Yearly defeated yearly hopes they give | W |
| And all agree Sir Robert cannot live | X |
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| Rise rise great W fated to appear | E |
| Spite of thyself a glorious minister | D |
| Speak the loud language princes | Y |
| And treat with half the | Z |
| At length to B kind as to thy | A2 |
| Espouse the nation you | B2 |
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| What can thy H | - |
| Dress in Dutch | C2 |
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| Though still he travels on no bad pretence | Y |
| To shew | B2 |
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| Or those foul copies of thy face and tongue | D2 |
| Veracious W and frontless Young | D2 |
| Sagacious Bub so late a friend and there | E2 |
| So late a foe yet more sagacious H | - |
| Hervey and Hervey's school F H y H n | F2 |
| Yea moral Ebor or religious Winton | P |
| How what can O w what can D | J |
| The wisdom of the one and other chair | E2 |
| N laugh or D s sager | D |
| Or thy dread truncheon M 's mighty peer | E |
| What help from J 's opiates canst thou draw | G2 |
| Or H k's quibbles voted into law | G2 |
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| C that Roman in his nose alone | H2 |
| Who hears all causes B but thy own | H2 |
| Or those proud fools whom nature rank and fate | I2 |
| Made fit companions for the sword of state | I2 |
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| Can the light packhorse or the heavy steer | E |
| The sowzing prelate or the sweating peer | E |
| Drag out with all its dirt and all its weight | I2 |
| The lumbering carriage of thy broken state | I2 |
| Alas the people curse the carman swears | Y |
| The drivers quarrel and the master stares | Y |
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| The plague is on thee Britain and who tries | Y |
| To save thee in the infectious office dies | Y |
| The first firm P y soon resign'd his breath | J2 |
| Brave S w loved thee and was lied to death | J2 |
| Good M m t's fate tore P th from thy side | K2 |
| And thy last sigh was heard when W m died | K2 |
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| Thy nobles sl s thy se s bought with gold | F |
| Thy clergy perjured thy whole people sold | F |
| An atheist symbol a symbol 's ad | L2 |
| Blotch thee all o'er and sink | M2 |
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| Alas on one alone our all relies | Y |
| Let him be honest and he must be wise | Y |
| Let him no trifler from his school | N2 |
| Nor like his still a | Z |
| Be but a man unminister'd alone | H2 |
| And free at once the senate and the throne | H2 |
| Esteem the public love his best supply | A2 |
| A symbol 's true glory his integrity | J |
| Rich with his in his strong | K |
| Affect no conquest but endure no wrong | K |
| Whatever his religion or his blood | O2 |
| His public virtue makes his title good | P2 |
| Europe's just balance and our own may stand | Q2 |
| And one man's honesty redeem the land | Q2 |
Alexander Pope
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