The Place Of The Damned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHCCII| All folks who pretend to religion and grace | A |
| Allow there's a HELL but dispute of the place | A |
| But if HELL may by logical rules be defined | B |
| The place of the damned I'll tell you my mind | B |
| Wherever the damned do chiefly abound | C |
| Most certainly there is HELL to be found | C |
| Damned poets damned critics damned blockheads damned knaves | D |
| Damned senators bribed damned prostitute slaves | D |
| Damned lawyers and judges damned lords and damned squires | E |
| Damned spies and informers damned friends and damned liars | E |
| Damned villains corrupted in every station | F |
| Damned time serving priests all over the nation | F |
| And into the bargain I'll readily give you | G |
| Damned ignorant prelates and counsellors privy | H |
| Then let us no longer by parsons be flammed | C |
| For we know by these marks the place of the damned | C |
| And HELL to be sure is at Paris or Rome | I |
| How happy for us that it is not at home | I |
Jonathan Swift
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