Distichs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D EF G G GH A I| Chords are touch'd by Apollo the death laden bow too he bendeth | A |
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| While he the shepherdess charms Python he lays in the dust | B |
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| What is merciful censure To make thy faults appear smaller | C |
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| May be to veil them No no O'er them to raise thee on high | D |
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| Democratic food soon cloys on the multitude's stomach | E |
| But I'll wager ere long other thou'lt give them instead | F |
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| What in France has pass'd by the Germans continue to practise | G |
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| For the proudest of men flatters the people and fawns | G |
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| Who is the happiest of men He who values the merits of others | G |
| And in their pleasure takes joy even as though 'twere his own | H |
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| Not in the morning alone not only at mid day he charmeth | A |
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| Even at setting the sun is still the same glorious planet | I |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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