Do Not! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHHIIIICCJJ

Do not despair of man and do not scold himA
Who are you that you should so lightly hold himA
Are you not also a man and in your heartB
Are there not warlike thoughts and fear and smartB
Are you not also afraid and in fear cruelC
Do you not think of yourself as usualC
Faint for ambition desire to be lovedD
Prick at a virtuous thought by beauty movedE
You love your wife you hold your children dearF
Then say not that Man is vile but say they areG
But they are not So is your judgement shownH
Presumptuous false quite vain merely your ownH
Sadness for failed ambition set outsideI
Made a philosophy of prinked beautifiedI
In noble dress and into the world sent outI
To run with the ill it most pretends to routI
Oh know your own heart that heart's not wholly evilC
And from the particular judge the generalC
If judge you must but with compassion see lifeJ
Or else of yourself despairing flee strifeJ

Stevie Smith



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