On Censure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMFFNN| Ye wise instruct me to endure | A |
| An evil which admits no cure | A |
| Or how this evil can be borne | B |
| Which breeds at once both hate and scorn | B |
| Bare innocence is no support | C |
| When you are tried in Scandal's court | C |
| Stand high in honour wealth or wit | D |
| All others who inferior sit | D |
| Conceive themselves in conscience bound | E |
| To join and drag you to the ground | E |
| Your altitude offends the eyes | F |
| Of those who want the power to rise | F |
| The world a willing stander by | G |
| Inclines to aid a specious lie | G |
| Alas they would not do you wrong | H |
| But all appearances are strong | H |
| Yet whence proceeds this weight we lay | I |
| On what detracting people say | I |
| For let mankind discharge their tongues | J |
| In venom till they burst their lungs | J |
| Their utmost malice cannot make | K |
| Your head or tooth or finger ache | K |
| Nor spoil your shape distort your face | L |
| Or put one feature out of place | L |
| Nor will you find your fortune sink | M |
| By what they speak or what they think | M |
| Nor can ten hundred thousand lies | F |
| Make you less virtuous learn'd or wise | F |
| The most effectual way to balk | N |
| Their malice is to let them talk | N |
Jonathan Swift
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