An Epigram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF| The scriptures affirm as I heard in my youth | A |
| For indeed I ne'er read them to speak for once truth | A |
| That death is the wages of sin but the just | B |
| Shall die not although they be laid in the dust | B |
| They say so so be it I care not a straw | C |
| Although I be dead both in gospel and law | C |
| In verse I shall live and be read in each climate | D |
| What more can be said of prime sergeant or primate | E |
| While Carter and Prendergast both may be rotten | F |
| And damn'd to the bargain and yet be forgotten | F |
Jonathan Swift
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