Slander Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLMNONO| Of all the poison plants that grow | A |
| And flourish in the human breast | B |
| No other plant perhaps hath so | A |
| Deep clench'd a root or peaceful rest | B |
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| No other plant has such a fruit | C |
| At once so sweet and deadly too | D |
| As that which loads each branch and shoot | C |
| And falls for me to eat and you | D |
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| Fell jealousy the monster wild | E |
| Whose green eyes roll in frenzy round | F |
| His ravages are small and mild | E |
| To thine and narrow'r far his ground | F |
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| His pow'r is felt around his home | G |
| But who can gauge the sway of thine | H |
| Which reaches high to heaven's dome | G |
| And acts within the darksome mine | H |
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| Thy poison drops distil each hour | I |
| To blight to ruin and destroy | J |
| And find with dark insidious pow'r | K |
| The heart of woman man and boy | J |
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| What antidote can neutralize | L |
| Thy baneful force thy potent spell | M |
| For deepest danger ever lies | L |
| Within this poison draught of hell | M |
| And men will drink with eager lip | N |
| The cup thou holdest forth to them | O |
| Not knowing that the draught they sip | N |
| May their and other souls condemn | O |
Thomas Frederick Young
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