The Old Gentry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FCGC HIHI JKLK| That all from Adam first began | A |
| None but ungodly Whiston doubts | B |
| And that his son and his son's son | C |
| Were all but ploughmen clowns and louts | B |
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| Each when his rustic pains began | A |
| To merit pleaded equal right | D |
| 'Twas only who left off at noon | E |
| Or who went on to work till night | D |
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| But coronets we owe to crowns | F |
| And favour to a court's affection | C |
| By nature we are Adam's sons | G |
| And sons of Anstis by election | C |
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| Kingsale eight hundred years have roll'd | H |
| Since thy forefathers had the plough | I |
| When this in story shall be told | H |
| Add that my kindred do so now | I |
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| The man who by his labour gets | J |
| His bread in independent state | K |
| Who never begs and seldom eats | L |
| Himself can fix or change his fate | K |
Matthew Prior
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