Couplets On Wit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BB A CC A DD ED D DF CCBB

IA
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But our Great Turks in wit must reign aloneB
And ill can bear a Brother on the ThroneB
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IIA
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Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profestC
Who to be saved by one must damn the restC
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IIIA
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Some who grow dull religious strait commenceD
And gain in morals what they lose in senceD
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IV-
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Wits starve as useless to a Common wealE
While Fools have places purely for their ZeaD
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VD
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Now wits gain praise by copying other witsD
As one Hog lives on what another shF
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VI-
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Wou'd you your writings to some Palates fitC
Purged all you verses from the sin of witC
For authors now are so conceited grownB
They praise no works but what are like their ownB

Alexander Pope



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