Thesis And Antithesis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGHH DDIIJJKKJJLM NNFFOOAAPPLL DDIIDD| If that we thus are guilty doth appear | A |
| Ah guilty tho' we are grave judges hear | B |
| Ah yes if ever you in your sweet youth | C |
| 'Midst pleasure's borders missed the track of truth | C |
| Made love on benches underneath green trees | D |
| Stuffed tender rhymes with old new similes | D |
| Whispered soft anythings and in the blood | E |
| Felt all you said not most was understood | F |
| Ah if you have as which of you has not | G |
| Nor what you were have utterly forgot | G |
| Then be not stern to faults yourselves have known | H |
| To others harsh kind to yourselves alone | H |
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| That we young sir beneath our youth's green trees | D |
| Once did not what should profit but should please | D |
| In foolish longing and in love sick play | I |
| Forgot the truth and lost the flying day | I |
| That we went wrong we say not is not true | J |
| But if we erred were we not punished too | J |
| If not if no one checked our wandering feet | K |
| Shall we our parents' negligence repeat | K |
| In future times that ancient loss renew | J |
| If none saved us forbear from saving you | J |
| Nor let that justice in your faults be seen | L |
| Which in our own or was or should have been | M |
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| Yet yet recal the mind that you had then | N |
| And so recalling listen yet again | N |
| If you escaped 'tis plainly understood | F |
| Impunity may leave a culprit good | F |
| If you were punished did you then as now | O |
| The justice of that punishment allow | O |
| Did what your age consents to now appear | A |
| Expedient then and needfully severe | A |
| In youth's indulgence think there yet might be | P |
| A truth forgot by grey severity | P |
| That strictness and that laxity between | L |
| Be yours the wisdom to detect the mean | L |
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| 'Tis possible young sir that some excess | D |
| Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less | D |
| Yet we must take our counsel as we may | I |
| For flying years this lesson still convey | I |
| 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise | D |
| And not to use but still correct one's eyes | D |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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