Wen Gott Betrügt, Ist Wohl Betrogen. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFGEEEEEHEGEEH AA IIJJII| Is it true ye gods who treat us | A |
| As the gambling fool is treated | B |
| O ye who ever cheat us | A |
| And let us feel we're cheated | B |
| Is it true that poetical power | C |
| The gift of heaven the dower | D |
| Of Apollo and the Nine | E |
| The inborn sense 'the vision and the faculty divine ' | F |
| All we glorify and bless | G |
| In our rapturous exaltation | E |
| All invention and creation | E |
| Exuberance of fancy and sublime imagination | E |
| All a poet's fame is built on | E |
| The fame of Shakespeare Milton | E |
| Of Wordsworth Byron Shelley | H |
| Is in reason's grave precision | E |
| Nothing more nothing less | G |
| Than a peculiar conformation | E |
| Constitution and condition | E |
| Of the brain and of the belly | H |
| Is it true ye gods who cheat us | A |
| And that 's the way ye treat us | A |
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| Oh say it all who think it | I |
| Look straight and never blink it | I |
| If it is so let it be so | J |
| And we will all agree so | J |
| But the plot has counterplot | I |
| It may be and yet be not | I |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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