The Godlike Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGF H| In one great man we view with odds | A |
| A parallel to all the gods | A |
| Great Jove that shook heaven with his brow | B |
| Could never match his princely bow | B |
| In him a Bacchus we behold | C |
| Like Bacchus too he ne'er grows old | C |
| Like Phoebus next a flaming lover | D |
| And then he's Mercury all over | D |
| A Vulcan for domestic strife | E |
| He lamely lives without his wife | E |
| And sure unless our wits be dull | F |
| Minerva like when moon was full | G |
| He issued from paternal skull | F |
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| R et R | H |
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