Virtue And Vice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HHIIJJKKLLMMNN OOPPHHQQRRSSTT| SHE was so good and he was so bad | A |
| A very pretty time they had | A |
| A pretty time and it lasted long | B |
| Which of the two was more in the wrong | B |
| He befouled in the slough of sin | C |
| Or she whose piety pushed him in | C |
| He found her yet more cold and staid | D |
| As wedded wife than courted maid | D |
| She filled their home with freezing gloom | E |
| He felt it dismal as a tomb | E |
| Her steadfast mind disdained his toys | F |
| Of worldly pleasures carnal joys | F |
| Her heart firm set on things above | G |
| Was frigid to his earthly love | G |
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| So he came staggering home at night | H |
| Where she sat chilling chaste and white | H |
| She smiled a scornful virtuous smile | I |
| He flung good books with curses vile | I |
| Fresh with the early morn she rose | J |
| While he yet lay in a feverish doze | J |
| She prayed for blessings from the Throne | K |
| He called for a hair of the dog with a groan | K |
| She blessed God for her strength to bear | L |
| The heavy load he gan to swear | L |
| She sighed would Heaven ere yet too late | M |
| Bring him to see his awful state | M |
| The charity thus sweetly pressed | N |
| Made him rage like one possessed | N |
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| So she grew holier day by day | O |
| While he grew all the other way | O |
| She left him she had done her part | P |
| To wean from sin his sinful heart | P |
| But all in vain her presence might | H |
| Make him a murderer some mad night | H |
| Her family took her back pure saint | Q |
| Serene in soul above complaint | Q |
| The narrow path she strictly trod | R |
| And went in triumph home to God | R |
| While he into the Union fell | S |
| Our halfway house on the road to Hell | S |
| With which would you rather pass your life | T |
| The wicked husband or saintly wife | T |
James Thomson
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