The Discipline Of Wisdom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| Rich labour is the struggle to be wise | A |
| While we make sure the struggle cannot cease | B |
| Else better were it in some bower of peace | B |
| Slothful to swing contending with the flies | A |
| You point at Wisdom fixed on lofty skies | A |
| As mid barbarian hordes a sculptured Greece | B |
| She falls To live and shine she grows her fleece | B |
| Is shorn and rubs with follies and with lies | A |
| So following her your hewing may attain | C |
| The right to speak unto the mute and shun | D |
| That sly temptation of the illumined brain | C |
| Deliveries oracular self spun | D |
| Who sweats not with the flock will seek in vain | C |
| To shed the words which are ripe fruit of sun | D |
George Meredith
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