Upon Over-much Niceness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDCDFFGGHHIIJJ| Tis much to see how over nice some are | A |
| About the body and household affair | B |
| While what's of worth they slightly pass it by | C |
| Not doing or doing it slovenly | D |
| Their house must be well furnished be in print | E |
| Meanwhile their soul lies ley has no good in't | D |
| Its outside also they must beautify | C |
| When in it there's scarce common honesty | D |
| Their bodies they must have tricked up and trim | F |
| Their inside full of filth up to the brim | F |
| Upon their clothes there must not be a spot | G |
| But is their lives more than one common blot | G |
| How nice how coy are some about their diet | H |
| That can their crying souls with hogs' meat quiet | H |
| All drest must to a hair be else 'tis naught | I |
| While of the living bread they have no thought | I |
| Thus for their outside they are clean and nice | J |
| While their poor inside stinks with sin and vice | J |
John Bunyan
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