A Tusculan Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FEGE HBHB IJIJ| One day as on an ass I rode | A |
| By many a twisting gully | B |
| To where once stood the famed abode | A |
| Of philosophic Tully | B |
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| A shepherd lad with hat aslouch | C |
| Was singing to his flock O | D |
| I pulled my money from my pouch | C |
| And chucked him a baiocco | E |
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| A moment gone and with his psalm | F |
| The hills and woods were ringing | E |
| But when the copper touched his palm | G |
| Sudden he ceased his singing | E |
| - | |
| Ah like to bees that cease to hum | H |
| When pressing on for honey | B |
| So doth the singing soul grow dumb | H |
| Intent on clogging money | B |
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| Kind Heaven forbid that ever I | I |
| Should sink in golden torpor | J |
| If living I may sing I'll die | I |
| Contentedly a pauper | J |
Alfred Austin
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