The Terrible People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBBBCCBBBBDDEEFG BB| People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it | A |
| And I wish I could afford to gather all such people into a gloomy castle on the Danube and hire half a dozen capable Draculas to haunt it | A |
| I dont' mind their having a lot of money and I don't care how they employ it | A |
| But I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it | A |
| But no they insist on being stealthy | B |
| About the pleasures of being wealthy | B |
| And the possession of a handsome annuity | B |
| Makes them think that to say how hard it is to make both ends meet is their bounden duity | B |
| You cannot conceive of an occasion | C |
| Which will find them without some suitable evasion | C |
| Yes indeed with argumetsn they are very fecund | B |
| Their first point is that money isn't everything and that they have no money anyhow is their second | B |
| Some people's money is merited | B |
| And other people's is inherited | B |
| But wherever it comes from | D |
| They talk about it as if it were something you got pink gums from | D |
| Perhaps indeed the possession of wealth is constantly distressing | E |
| But I should be quite willing to assume every curse of wealth if I could at the same time assume every blessing | E |
| The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure | F |
| Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor | G |
| Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy but it's very funny | B |
| Have you ever tried to buy them without money | B |
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