To James Norton Esq. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAABCDCDDC| Think you I have not skill to gather gold | A |
| If I could love it as some others do | B |
| Or that I lack the spirit of a bold | A |
| And resolute man in any cause that s true | B |
| Because I scorn to juggle with yon crew | B |
| Of politics schemers Let the truth be told | A |
| Whatever I can value I can mould | A |
| Right deftly to my ends and boldly too | B |
| But fame he sought not through a gainful hand | C |
| This of my being let future tell | D |
| Nor through the arts of popular command | C |
| But in retirement where the muses dwell | D |
| That his life s legacy might be a well | D |
| Pierian in a wide and thirsty land | C |
Charles Harpur
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