The Ghost: Book Iii (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJK LMMNNOOPPQIRSTTUUMVW DA| A | |
| Horrid unwieldly without form | B |
| Savage as ocean in a storm | B |
| Of size prodigious in the rear | C |
| That post of honour should appear | C |
| Pomposo fame around should tell | D |
| How he a slave to int'rest fell | D |
| How for integrity renown'd | E |
| Which booksellers have often found | E |
| He for subscribers baits his hook | F |
| And takes their cash but where's the book | F |
| No matter where wise fear we know | G |
| Forbids the robbing of a foe | G |
| But what to serve our private ends | H |
| Forbids the cheating of our friends | H |
| No man alive who would not swear | I |
| All's safe and therefore honest there | I |
| For spite of all the learned say | J |
| If we to truth attention pay | J |
| The word dishonesty is meant | K |
| For nothing else but punishment | L |
| Fame too should tell nor heed the threat | M |
| Of rogues who brother rogues abet | M |
| Nor tremble at the terrors hung | N |
| Aloft to make her hold her tongue | N |
| How to all principles untrue | O |
| Nor fix'd to old friends nor to new | O |
| He damns the pension which he takes | P |
| And loves the Stuart he forsakes | P |
| Nature who justly regular | Q |
| Is very seldom known to err | I |
| But now and then in sportive mood | R |
| As some rude wits have understood | S |
| Or through much work requir'd in haste | T |
| Is with a random stroke disgrac'd | T |
| Pomposo form'd on doubtful plan | U |
| Not quite a beast nor quite a man | U |
| Like God knows what for never yet | M |
| Could the most subtle human wit | V |
| Find out a monster which might be | W |
| The shadow of a simile | D |
| A |
Charles Churchill
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