The Riddle For Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCAABCDEDEDE A DDDDDDDDFDFDF| I | A |
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| This Riddle rede or die | A |
| Says History since our Flood | B |
| To warn her sons of power | C |
| It can be truth it can be lie | A |
| Be parasite to twist awry | A |
| The drouthy vampire for your blood | B |
| The fountain of the silver flower | C |
| A brand a lure a web a crest | D |
| Supple of wax or tempered steel | E |
| The spur to honour snake in nest | D |
| 'Tis as you will with it to deal | E |
| To wear upon the breast | D |
| Or trample under heel | E |
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| II | A |
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| And rede you not aright | D |
| Says Nature still in red | D |
| Shall History's tale be writ | D |
| For solely thus you lead to light | D |
| The trailing chapters she must write | D |
| And pass my fiery test of dead | D |
| Or living through the furnace pit | D |
| Dislinked from who the softer hold | D |
| In grip of brute and brute remain | F |
| Of whom the woeful tale is told | D |
| How for one short Sultanic reign | F |
| Their bodies lapse to mould | D |
| Their souls behowl the plain | F |
George Meredith
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