Elizabeth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCDEDEEFFDElizabeth it surely is most fit | A |
Logic and common usage so commanding | B |
In thy own book that first thy name be writ | A |
Zeno and other sages notwithstanding | B |
And I have other reasons for so doing | B |
Besides my innate love of contradiction | C |
Each poet if a poet in pursuing | B |
The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction | C |
Has studied very little of his part | D |
Read nothing written less in short's a fool | E |
Endued with neither soul nor sense nor art | D |
Being ignorant of one important rule | E |
Employed in even the theses of the school | E |
Called I forget the heathenish Greek name | F |
Called anything its meaning is the same | F |
Always write first things uppermost in the heart | D |
Edgar Allan Poe
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