Futility Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG| To gild refined gold or to paint the lily | A |
| Or seek by other means to overstress | B |
| As Shakespeare has it is not merely silly | A |
| But 'wasteful and ridiculous excess ' | C |
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| Yes men still try it for no other reason | D |
| Than that man ever would and ever will | E |
| Strive fatuously in and out of season | D |
| To paint perfection's cheek more perfect still | E |
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| Yet of all futile tasks of all the foolish | F |
| Absurd attempts that show of wit a lack | G |
| The worst is his who obstinate and mulish | F |
| Insists that he should paint a collier black | G |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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