Literary Squabbles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIJI KLKL| Ah God the petty fools of rhyme | A |
| That shriek and sweat in pigmy wars | B |
| Before the stony face of Time | A |
| And look'd at by the silent stars | C |
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| Who hate each other for a song | D |
| And do their little best to bite | E |
| And pinch their brethren in the throng | D |
| And scratch the very dead for spite | E |
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| And strain to make an inch of room | F |
| For their sweet selves and cannot hear | G |
| The sullen Lethe rolling doom | F |
| On them and theirs and all things here | G |
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| When one small touch of Charity | H |
| Could lift them nearer Godlike state | I |
| Than if the crowded Orb should cry | J |
| Like those who cried Diana great | I |
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| And I too talk and lose the touch | K |
| I talk of Surely after all | L |
| The noblest answer unto such | K |
| Is perfect stillness when they brawl | L |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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