He Discourseth Of The Wherefore Of Bachelorism. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAB CD CD ED EFGGFF HIHIAJJJ| What else do we live for in this world beside | A |
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| Alas 't is the question of ten times a day | B |
| That comes on the wind or that floats on the tide | A |
| And creeps in the houses where men go to pray | B |
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| What else do we live for than get such a wife | C |
| As this of the banker of our faint description | D |
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| What else is the end of our fashionable life | C |
| From which men escape as they would from conscription | D |
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| What else is the reason so few natives marry | E |
| Than this that extravagance leads on to ruin | D |
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| It is because few men are able to carry | E |
| The load of this baking and roasting and stewing | F |
| Of buying and wasting extravagant meat | G |
| Where women are dying of nothing to eat | G |
| Where men in corruption so rapidly tending | F |
| In morals and wealth in bankruptcy ending | F |
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| That forging and stealing and breaches of trust | H |
| And ten thousand arts of the confidence game | I |
| And follies uncounted of men on a bust | H |
| Are follies and crimes of this age to our shame | I |
| Till angels who witness the folly so wide | A |
| Extended from palace to farm house and cot | J |
| Might wonder if mortals life's objects forgot | J |
| Or Merdle's position is man's common lot | J |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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