The Vanity Of Wealth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFFGGHHFF FFIIFFJJNo 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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