Although No Stupid Scoffer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG AHAH IJIK LMLM NONO| Although no stupid scoffer I | A |
| Am wholly at a loss | B |
| To apprehend the reason why | A |
| You kiss Lorenzo's Cross | B |
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| For though indeed a hundred days' | C |
| Indulgence thus you win | D |
| There does not move a lip but says | E |
| That you did never sin | D |
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| Ha but I did not read the whole | F |
| I see it now the gain | G |
| May be applied to any soul | F |
| In purgatorial pain | G |
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| And oh how many spirits lie | A |
| In such sad bondage through | H |
| Having too often passed it by | A |
| Whilst gazing after you | H |
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| They longed instead your lips to kiss | I |
| Their wish though vain was clear | J |
| They fondly thought they would by this | I |
| Make sure of heaven here | K |
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| Indulgence each your lip acquires | L |
| On them it doth bestow | M |
| And you who lighted here their fires | L |
| Do quench their flames below | M |
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| And so you soothe 'tis only fair | N |
| The souls you lately vexed | O |
| 'Tis lucky you have grace to spare | N |
| For this world and the next | O |
Alfred Austin
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