Duty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAADEFGFGHHIIIIJJ KKLLMMANANOPQOPFHFRR FHFH| Duty that's to say complying | A |
| With whate'er's expected here | B |
| On your unknown cousin's dying | A |
| Straight be ready with the tear | C |
| Upon etiquette relying | A |
| Unto usage nought denying | A |
| Lend your waist to be embraced | D |
| Blush not even never fear | E |
| Claims of kith and kin connection | F |
| Claims of manners honour still | G |
| Ready money of affection | F |
| Pay whoever drew the bill | G |
| With the form conforming duly | H |
| Senseless what it meaneth truly | H |
| Go to church the world require you | I |
| To balls the world require you too | I |
| And marry papa and mamma desire you | I |
| And your sisters and schoolfellows do | I |
| Duty 'tis to take on trust | J |
| What things are good and right and just | J |
| And whether indeed they be or be not | K |
| Try not test not feel not see not | K |
| 'Tis walk and dance sit down and rise | L |
| By leading opening ne'er your eyes | L |
| Stunt sturdy limbs that Nature gave | M |
| And be drawn in a Bath chair along to the grave | M |
| 'Tis the stern and prompt suppressing | A |
| As an obvious deadly sin | N |
| All the questing and the guessing | A |
| Of the souls own soul within | N |
| 'Tis the coward acquiescence | O |
| In a destiny's behest | P |
| To a shade by terror made | Q |
| Sacrificing aye the essence | O |
| Of all that's truest noblest best | P |
| 'Tis the blind non recognition | F |
| Or of goodness truth or beauty | H |
| Save by precept and submission | F |
| Moral blank and moral void | R |
| Life at very birth destroyed | R |
| Atrophy exinanition | F |
| Duty | H |
| Yea by duty's prime condition | F |
| Pure nonentity of duty | H |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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