The Perverted Village After Goldsmith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFBBGG HHCCIIJJKKLLGGLL| Sweet Auburn liveliest village of the plain | A |
| Where Health and Slander welcome every train | A |
| Whence smiling innocence its tribute paid | B |
| Retires in terror wounded and dismayed | B |
| Dear lovely bowers of gossip and disease | C |
| Whose climate cures us that thy dames may tease | C |
| How often have I knelt upon thy green | D |
| And prayed for death to mitigate their spleen | D |
| How often have I paused on every charm | E |
| With mingled admiration and alarm | E |
| The brook that runs by many a scandal mill | F |
| The church whose pastor groans upon the grill | F |
| The cowthorn bush with seats beneath the shade | B |
| Where hearts are struck and reputations flayed | B |
| How often wished thine idle wives some day | G |
| Might more at whist less at the devil play | G |
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| Unblest retirement ere my life's decline | H |
| Killed by detraction may I witness thine | H |
| How happy she who shunning shades like these | C |
| Finds in a wolf den greater peace and ease | C |
| Who quits the place whence truth did earlier fly | I |
| And rather than come back prefers to die | I |
| For her no jealous maids renounce their sleep | J |
| Contriving malices to make her weep | J |
| No iron faced dames her character debate | K |
| And spurn imploring mercy from the gate | K |
| But down she lies to a more peaceful end | L |
| For wolves do not calumniate but rend | L |
| Sinks piecemeal to their maws a willing prey | G |
| While resignation lubricates the way | G |
| And all her prospects brighten at the last | L |
| To wolves not women an approved repast | L |
Ambrose Bierce
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