Neatness In Apparel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF GHGH IGGG| In your garb and outward clothing | A |
| A reserv d plainness use | B |
| By their neatness more distinguished | C |
| Than the brightness of their hues | D |
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| All the colours in the rainbow | E |
| Serve to spread the peacock's train | F |
| Half the lustre of his feathers | G |
| Would turn twenty coxcombs vain | F |
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| Yet the swan that swims in rivers | G |
| Pleases the judicious sight | H |
| Who of brighter colours heedless | G |
| Trusts alone to simple white | H |
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| Yet all other hues compar d | I |
| With his whiteness show amiss | G |
| And the peacock's coat of colours | G |
| Like a fool's coat looks by his | G |
Charles Lamb
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