The Malefactor's Plea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG HGHG IGIG JEJE GGGG| Of sentences that stir my bile | A |
| Of phrases I detest | B |
| There's one beyond all others vile | A |
| He did it for the best | B |
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| Of course he did I don't suppose | C |
| Nor can you think I should | D |
| The man's among my deadliest foes | C |
| Or is not fairly good | D |
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| Of course he did it for the best | B |
| What should he do it for | E |
| But did he do it that's the test | B |
| I ask to know no more | E |
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| Alas he did and here am I | F |
| Quite ruined half disgraced | G |
| And you can really ask me why | F |
| My wrath is not effaced | G |
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| And there is he good worthy man | H |
| With self esteem possessed | G |
| Still saying as of course he can | H |
| I did it for the best | G |
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| No evil deed was ever done | I |
| Or honest man withstood | G |
| Since first this weary world begun | I |
| Except for someone's good | G |
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| And can it signify to me | J |
| Whose good he did it for | E |
| Mine was it thus 'twas wont to be | J |
| And will be ever more | E |
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| When inoffensive people plant | G |
| A dagger in your breast | G |
| Your good is what they really want | G |
| They do it for the best | G |
James Kenneth Stephen
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