Fragment: What Men Gain Fairly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDBBEE| What men gain fairly that they should possess | A |
| And children may inherit idleness | B |
| From him who earns it This is understood | C |
| Private injustice may be general good | C |
| But he who gains by base and armed wrong | D |
| Or guilty fraud or base compliances | B |
| May be despoiled even as a stolen dress | B |
| Is stripped from a convicted thief and he | E |
| Left in the nakedness of infamy | E |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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