To A Friend Who Had Been Much Abused In Many Inveterate Libels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF| The greatest monarch may be stabb'd by night | A |
| And fortune help the murderer in his flight | A |
| The vilest ruffian may commit a rape | B |
| Yet safe from injured innocence escape | B |
| And calumny by working under ground | C |
| Can unrevenged the greatest merit wound | C |
| What's to be done Shall wit and learning choose | D |
| To live obscure and have no fame to lose | D |
| By Censure frighted out of Honour's road | E |
| Nor dare to use the gifts by Heaven bestow'd | E |
| Or fearless enter in through Virtue's gate | F |
| And buy distinction at the dearest rate | F |
Jonathan Swift
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