Political Economy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEDAAFFGGHHIDJJ KKJJLD| 'I beg you to note ' said a Man to a Goose | A |
| As he plucked from her bosom the plumage all loose | A |
| 'That pillows and cushions of feathers and beds | B |
| As warm as maids' hearts and as soft as their heads | B |
| Increase of life's comforts the general sum | C |
| Which raises the standard of living ' 'Come come ' | D |
| The Goose said impatiently 'tell me or cease | E |
| How that is of any advantage to geese ' | D |
| 'What what ' said the man 'you are very obtuse | A |
| Consumption no profit to those who produce | A |
| No good to accrue to Supply from a grand | F |
| Progressive expansion all round of Demand | F |
| Luxurious habits no benefit bring | G |
| To those who purvey the luxurious thing | G |
| Consider I pray you my friend how the growth | H |
| Of luxury promises ' 'Promises ' quoth | H |
| The sufferer 'what to what course is it pledged | I |
| To pay me for being so often defledged ' | D |
| 'Accustomed' this notion the plucker expressed | J |
| As he ripped out a handful of down from her breast | J |
| 'To one kind of luxury people soon yearn | K |
| For others and ever for others in turn | K |
| And the man who to night on your feathers will rest | J |
| His mutton or bacon or beef to digest | J |
| His hunger to morrow will wish to assuage | L |
| By dining on goose with a dressing of sage ' | D |
Ambrose Bierce
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