Do Not! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHHIIIICCJJDo not despair of man and do not scold him | A |
Who are you that you should so lightly hold him | A |
Are you not also a man and in your heart | B |
Are there not warlike thoughts and fear and smart | B |
Are you not also afraid and in fear cruel | C |
Do you not think of yourself as usual | C |
Faint for ambition desire to be loved | D |
Prick at a virtuous thought by beauty moved | E |
You love your wife you hold your children dear | F |
Then say not that Man is vile but say they are | G |
But they are not So is your judgement shown | H |
Presumptuous false quite vain merely your own | H |
Sadness for failed ambition set outside | I |
Made a philosophy of prinked beautified | I |
In noble dress and into the world sent out | I |
To run with the ill it most pretends to rout | I |
Oh know your own heart that heart's not wholly evil | C |
And from the particular judge the general | C |
If judge you must but with compassion see life | J |
Or else of yourself despairing flee strife | J |
Stevie Smith
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