On Gold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEBBFG HHBBBB IIJJKKLLBBMM| All ruling tyrant of the earth | A |
| To vilest slaves I owe my birth | A |
| How is the greatest monarch blest | B |
| When in my gaudy livery drest | B |
| No haughty nymph has power to run | C |
| From me or my embraces shun | C |
| Stabb'd to the heart condemn'd to flame | D |
| My constancy is still the same | D |
| The favourite messenger of Jove | E |
| And Lemnian god consulting strove | E |
| To make me glorious to the sight | B |
| Of mortals and the gods' delight | B |
| Soon would their altar's flame expire | F |
| If I refused to lend them fire | G |
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| By fate exalted high in place | H |
| Lo here I stand with double face | H |
| Superior none on earth I find | B |
| But see below me all mankind | B |
| Yet as it oft attends the great | B |
| I almost sink with my own weight | B |
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| At every motion undertook | I |
| The vulgar all consult my look | I |
| I sometimes give advice in writing | J |
| But never of my own inditing | J |
| I am a courtier in my way | K |
| For those who raised me I betray | K |
| And some give out that I entice | L |
| To lust to luxury and dice | L |
| Who punishments on me inflict | B |
| Because they find their pockets pickt | B |
| By riding post I lose my health | M |
| And only to get others wealth | M |
Jonathan Swift
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