To Oscar Wilde Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE BGGB| Because from Folly's lips you got | A |
| Some babbled mandate to subdue | B |
| The realm of Common Sense and you | B |
| Made promise and considered not | A |
| - | |
| Because you strike a random blow | C |
| At what you do not understand | D |
| And beckon with a friendly hand | D |
| To something that you do not know | C |
| - | |
| I hold no speech of your desert | E |
| Nor answer with porrected shield | F |
| The wooden weapon that you wield | F |
| But meet you with a cast of dirt | E |
| - | |
| Dispute with such a thing as you | B |
| Twin show to the two headed calf | G |
| Why sir if I repress my laugh | G |
| 'T is more than half the world can do | B |
Ambrose Bierce
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