The Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDED FGFGF CHCIC| Do not be distant with me do not be | A |
| Angry because I drank deep of your wine | B |
| But treat that laughing matter laughingly | A |
| Because I am a poet and incline | B |
| By nature and by art to jollity | C |
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| Always I loved to see I will aver | D |
| The good red tide lip at the flagon's brim | E |
| Sitting half fool and half philosopher | D |
| Chatting with every kind of her and him | E |
| And shrugged at sneer of money gatherer | D |
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| Often enough I trudge by hedge and wall | F |
| Too often there's no money in my purse | G |
| Nor malice in my mind ever at all | F |
| And for my songs no person is the worse | G |
| But I who give all of my store to all | F |
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| If busybody spoke to you of it | C |
| Say kindly man if kindly man do live | H |
| The poet only takes his sup and bit | C |
| And say It is no great return to give | I |
| For his unstinted gift of verse and wit | C |
James Stephens
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