Self-satisfied Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHAA| Well satisfied with all his own he stands | A |
| Holding a trembling balance in his hands | A |
| On one scale wealth and ease men's praises too | B |
| Whatever charms the soul and keeps it true | B |
| But on the other scale lo the foul street | C |
| Where pallid children play where poor folk greet | C |
| And crowded houses dirty dimly lit | D |
| On whose dull walls all misery is writ | D |
| Houses wherein the herded cannot fight | E |
| The ambushed evil lurking day and night | E |
| Has he contented one who counts his gain | F |
| Balanced the cost the wretchedness and pain | F |
| Of those who help him hoard his heap of gold | G |
| Ah human life may be too dearly sold | G |
| For see the one scale weighs the other down | H |
| His gold his ease his honors by Heaven's frown | H |
| Withered to nothing now behold he stands | A |
| Broken his scales reaching imploring hands | A |
Helen Leah Reed
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