Lollius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI FJFJ KIKI LILI IFIF MFMF| Why gird at Lollius if he care | A |
| To purchase in the city's sight | B |
| With nard and roses for his hair | A |
| The name of Knight | B |
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| Son of unmitigated sires | C |
| Enriched by trade in Afric corn | D |
| His wealth allows his wife requires | E |
| Him to be born | D |
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| Him slaves shall serve with zeal renewed | F |
| At lesser wage for longer whiles | G |
| And school and station masters rude | F |
| Receive with smiles | G |
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| His bowels shall be sought in charge | H |
| By learned doctors all his sons | I |
| And nubile daughters shall enlarge | H |
| Their horizons | I |
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| For fierce she Britons apt to smite | F |
| Their upward climbing sisters down | J |
| Shall smooth their plumes and oft invite | F |
| The brood to town | J |
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| For these delights will he disgorge | K |
| The State enormous benefice | I |
| But by the head of either George | K |
| He pays not twice | I |
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| Whom neither lust for public pelf | L |
| Nor itch to make orations vex | I |
| Content to honour his own self | L |
| With his own cheques | I |
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| That man is clean At least his house | I |
| Springs cleanly from untainted gold | F |
| Not from a conscience or a spouse | I |
| Sold and resold | F |
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| Time was you say before men knew | M |
| Such arts and rose by Virtue guided | F |
| The tables rock with laughter you | M |
| Not least derided | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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