Couplets On Wit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB A CC A DD ED D DF CCBB| I | 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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