Do Not! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHHIIIICCJJ| Do 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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