The Vanity Of Wealth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFFGGHHFF FFIIFFJJ| No more thus brooding o'er yon heap | A |
| With avarice painful vigils keep | A |
| Still unenjoy'd the present store | B |
| Still endless sighs are breathed for more | B |
| O quit the shadow catch the prize | C |
| Which not all India's treasure buys | C |
| To purchase with heaven has gold the power | D |
| Can gold remove the mortal hour | D |
| In life can love be bought with gold | E |
| Are friendship's pleasures to be sold | E |
| No all that's worth a wish a thought | F |
| Fair virtue gives unbribed unbought | F |
| Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind | F |
| Let noble views engage thy mind | F |
| With science tread the wondrous way | G |
| Or learn the Muses' moral lay | G |
| In social hours indulge thy soul | H |
| Where mirth and temperance mix the bowl | H |
| To virtuous love resign thy breast | F |
| And be by blessing beauty bless'd | F |
| Thus taste the feast by Nature spread | F |
| Ere youth and all its joys are fled | F |
| Come taste with me the balm of life | I |
| Secure from pomp and wealth and strife | I |
| I boast whate'er for man was meant | F |
| In health and Stella and content | F |
| And scorn oh let that scorn be thine | J |
| Mere things of clay that dig the mine | J |
Samuel Johnson
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