Worldly Place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CDD EF| Even in a palace life may be led well | A |
| So spake the imperial sage purest of men | B |
| Marcus Aurelius But the stifling den | B |
| Of common life where crowded up pell mell | A |
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| Our freedom for a little bread we sell | A |
| And drudge under some foolish master's ken | B |
| Who rates us if we peer outside our pen | B |
| Match'd with a palace is not this a hell | A |
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| Even in a palace On his truth sincere | C |
| Who spoke these words no shadow ever came | D |
| And when my ill school'd spirit is aflame | D |
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| Some nobler ampler stage of life to win | E |
| I'll stop and say 'There were no succour here | F |
| The aids to noble life are all within ' | - |
Matthew Arnold
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