Thoughtless Cruelty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFFB GGHB IJJB KEKL MNNL| There Robert you have killed that fly | A |
| And should you thousand ages try | A |
| The life you've taken to supply | A |
| You could not do it | B |
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| You surely must have been devoid | C |
| Of thought and sense to have destroyed | C |
| A thing which no way you annoyed | C |
| You'll one day rue it | B |
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| 'Twas but a fly perhaps you'll say | D |
| That's born in April dies in May | D |
| That does but just learn to display | D |
| His wings one minute | E |
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| And in the next is vanished quite | F |
| A bird devours it in his flight | F |
| Or come a cold blast in the night | F |
| There's no breath in it | B |
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| The bird but seeks his proper food | G |
| And Providence whose power endued | G |
| That fly with life when it thinks good | H |
| May justly take it | B |
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| But you have no excuses for't | I |
| A life by Nature made so short | J |
| Less reason is that you for sport | J |
| Should shorter make it | B |
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| A fly a little thing you rate | K |
| But Robert do not estimate | E |
| A creature's pain by small or great | K |
| The greatest being | L |
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| Can have but fibres nerves and flesh | M |
| And these the smallest ones possess | N |
| Although their frame and structure less | N |
| Escape our seeing | L |
Charles Lamb
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