Couplets On Wit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB A CC A DD ED D DF CCBBI | A |
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But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone | B |
And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne | B |
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II | A |
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Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest | C |
Who to be saved by one must damn the rest | C |
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III | A |
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Some who grow dull religious strait commence | D |
And gain in morals what they lose in sence | D |
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IV | - |
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Wits starve as useless to a Common weal | E |
While Fools have places purely for their Zea | D |
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V | D |
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Now wits gain praise by copying other wits | D |
As one Hog lives on what another sh | F |
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VI | - |
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Wou'd you your writings to some Palates fit | C |
Purged all you verses from the sin of wit | C |
For authors now are so conceited grown | B |
They praise no works but what are like their own | B |
Alexander Pope
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