The Aristocrat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF AAGGHHIIJJKKThe Devil is a gentleman and asks you down to stay | A |
At his little place at What'sitsname it isn't far away | A |
They say the sport is splendid there is always something new | B |
And fairy scenes and fearful feats that none but he can do | B |
He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate | C |
Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait | C |
He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice the sky | D |
And blew his trumpet above heaven and got by mastery | E |
The starry crown of God Himself and shoved it on the shelf | F |
But the Devil is a gentleman and doesn't brag himself | F |
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O blind your eyes and break your heart and hack your hand away | A |
And lose your love and shave your head but do not go to stay | A |
At the little place in What'sitsname where folks are rich and clever | G |
The golden and the goodly house where things grow worse for ever | G |
There are things you need not know of though you live and die in vain | H |
There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain | H |
There is a game of April Fool that's played behind its door | I |
Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more | I |
Where the splendour of the daylight grows drearier than the dark | J |
And life droops like a vulture that once was such a lark | J |
And that is the Blue Devil that once was the Blue Bird | K |
For the Devil is a gentleman and doesn't keep his word | K |
G. K. Chesterton
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