A Certain People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBBBCBDDCAs Puritans they prominently wax | A |
And none more kindly gives and takes hard knocks | B |
Strong psalmic chanting like to nasal cocks | B |
They join to thunderings of their hearty thwacks | B |
But naughtiness with hoggery not lacks | B |
When Peace another door in them unlocks | B |
Where conscience shows the eyeing of an ox | B |
Grown dully apprehensive of an Axe | B |
Graceless they are when gone to frivolousness | B |
Fearing the God they flout the God they glut | C |
They need their pious exercises less | B |
Than schooling in the Pleasures fair belief | D |
That these are devilish only to their thief | D |
Charged with an Axe nigh on the occiput | C |
George Meredith
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