The Aristocrat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF AAGGHHIIJJKK| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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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