Prosperity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU VKVK UWUW XYXY ZA2ZA2 AB2CB2| Enlaced with gardened jewelry | A |
| My basking villas nest | B |
| Where sifted sunshine soothes the eye | C |
| And cosy hillocks rest | B |
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| Convention's fronds here screen from view | D |
| Immodest Nature's haunt | E |
| And wizard Distance veils in blue | D |
| The haggard peaks of Want | F |
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| The millions fast that I may feast | G |
| And drudge that I may play | H |
| But Average complacent priest | G |
| Condones the wrong away | H |
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| Finesse my statesman calculates | I |
| Subjection's breaking strain | J |
| And Comfort crooning mitigates | I |
| The drifting moan of pain | J |
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| My sages God's commandments frame | K |
| From maxims of the desk | L |
| My Art from poverty and shame | K |
| Evolves the Picturesque | M |
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| By glamour haloed leering Lust | N |
| So angel like appears | O |
| That Scruple loses her distrust | N |
| And Innocence her fears | O |
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| Secure I lounge upon the shore | P |
| Where Anger's breakers throb | Q |
| Or high above the marsh ignore | P |
| Its ague smitten mob | Q |
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| The highways to Desire I hold | R |
| And fatten on the fees | S |
| My hungry Science gathers gold | R |
| From limbecks of disease | S |
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| Success my sorcerer refines | T |
| My murder tainted hoard | U |
| And hides the felon weals and lines | T |
| With which my back is scored | U |
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| He perfumes from my women's gowns | V |
| Their tainted makers' shame | K |
| In Glory cyclic Wrong he drowns | V |
| And Treachery in Fame | K |
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| Who reaches me a stream must ford | U |
| Whose poppied waters dim | W |
| Old dreams of wielding Freedom's sword | U |
| And chanting Freedom's hymn | W |
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| Must hold the claims of Discontent | X |
| Mere envies of the mass | Y |
| That Life's repose was only meant | X |
| To dower the ruling class | Y |
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| Must learn that Nature weakness scorns | Z |
| That God the serfs ignores | A2 |
| That Toil deserves its crown of thorns | Z |
| And Poverty its sores | A2 |
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| That tho' 'tis wise with Charity | A |
| Torrential Need to dam | B2 |
| The Hope of Progress is a lie | C |
| And Brotherhood a sham | B2 |
Bernard O'dowd
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