The Good, Great Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD E FFFFGGHIHI| 'How seldom friend a good great man inherits | A |
| Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains | B |
| It sounds like stories from the land of spirits | C |
| If any man obtain that which he merits | A |
| Or any merit that which he obtains ' | D |
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| Reply to the Above | E |
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| For shame dear friend renounce this canting strain | F |
| What would'st thou have a good great man obtain | F |
| Place titles salary a gilded chain | F |
| Or throne of corses which his sword had slain | F |
| Greatness and goodness are not means but ends | G |
| Hath he not always treasures always friends | G |
| The good great man three treasures LOVE and LIGHT | H |
| And CALM THOUGHTS regular as infant's breath | I |
| And three firm friends more sure than day and night | H |
| HIMSELF his MAKER and the ANGEL DEATH | I |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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