An Insincere Wish Addressed To A Beggar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHJ KLKL| We are not near enough to love | A |
| I can but pity all your woe | B |
| For wealth has lifted me above | A |
| And falsehood set you down below | B |
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| If you were true we still might be | C |
| Brothers in something more than name | D |
| And were I poor your love to me | C |
| Would make our differing bonds the same | D |
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| But golden gates between us stretch | E |
| Truth opens her forbidding eyes | F |
| You can't forget that I am rich | G |
| Nor I that you are telling lies | F |
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| Love never comes but at love's call | H |
| And pity asks for him in vain | I |
| Because I cannot give you all | H |
| You give me nothing back again | J |
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| And you are right with all your wrong | K |
| For less than all is nothing too | L |
| May Heaven beggar me ere long | K |
| And Truth reveal herself to you | L |
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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