Lines Indited With All The Depravity Of Poverty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCEFFGHHIIAA| One way to be very happy is to be very rich | A |
| For then you can buy orchids by the quire and bacon by the flitch | A |
| And yet at the same time People don't mind if you only tip them a dime | B |
| Because it's very funny | C |
| But somehow if you're rich enough you can get away with spending | D |
| water like money | C |
| While if you're not rich you can spend in one evening your salary for | E |
| the year | F |
| And everybody will just stand around and jeer | F |
| If you are rich you don't have to think twice about buying a judge or a | G |
| horse | H |
| Or a lower instead of an upper or a new suit or a divorce | H |
| And you never have to say When | I |
| And you can sleep every morning until nine or ten | I |
| All of which | A |
| Explains why I should like very very much to be very very rich | A |
Ogden Nash
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