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 |
| - | |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| - | |
| 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
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Neatness In Apparel poem by Charles Lamb
Best Poems of Charles Lamb