The Good Of It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCD EFGFD HIHID JKJKD LMLND O PQRQD| A Cynic's Song | A |
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| SOME men strut proudly all purple and gold | B |
| Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame | C |
| I creep along braving hunger and cold | B |
| To keep my heart stainless as well as my name | C |
| So so where is the good of it | D |
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| Some clothe bare Truth in fine garments of words | E |
| Fetter her free limbs with cumbersome state | F |
| With me let me sit at the lordliest boards | G |
| 'I love' means I love and 'I hate' means I hate | F |
| But but where is the good of it | D |
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| Some have rich dainties and costly attire | H |
| Guests fluttering round them and duns at the door | I |
| I crouch alone at my plain board and fire | H |
| Enjoy what I pay for and scorn to have more | I |
| Yet yet where is the good of it | D |
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| Some gather round them a phalanx of friends | J |
| Scattering affection like coin in a crowd | K |
| I keep my heart for the few that heaven sends | J |
| Where they'll find their names writ when I lie in my shroud | K |
| Still still where is the good of it | D |
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| Some toy with love lightly come lightly go | L |
| A blithe game at hearts little worth little cost | M |
| I staked my whole soul on one desperate throw | L |
| A life 'gainst an hour's sport We played' and I lost | N |
| Ha ha such was the good of it | D |
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| Moral Added On His Death Bed | O |
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| TURN the Past's mirror backward Its shadows removed | P |
| The dim confused mass becomes softened sublime | Q |
| I have worked I have felt I have lived I have loved | R |
| And each was a step towards the goal I now climb | Q |
| Thou God Thou sawest the good of it | D |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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