A Contented Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E| A young man goes skipping and bounding along a street in the capital His movements are gay and alert there is a sparkle in his eyes a smirk on his lips a pleasing flush on his beaming face He is all contentment and delight | A |
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| What has happened to him Has he come in for a legacy Has he been promoted Is he hastening to meet his beloved Or is it simply he has had a good breakfast and the sense of health the sense of well fed prosperity is at work in all his limbs Surely they have not put on his neck thy lovely eight pointed cross O Polish king Stanislas | B |
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| No He has hatched a scandal against a friend has sedulously sown it abroad has heard it this same slander from the lips of another friend and has himself believed it | C |
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| Oh how contented how kind indeed at this minute is this amiable promising young man | D |
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| February | E |
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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