The Old Stone Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEF GHAHIHEF JKLMNKEF| A statesman is an easy man | A |
| He tells his lies by rote | B |
| A journalist makes up his lies | C |
| And takes you by the throat | B |
| So stay at home' and drink your beer | D |
| And let the neighbours' vote | B |
| Said the man in the golden breastplate | E |
| Under the old stone Cross | F |
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| Because this age and the next age | G |
| Engender in the ditch | H |
| No man can know a happy man | A |
| From any passing wretch | H |
| If Folly link with Elegance | I |
| No man knows which is which | H |
| Said the man in the golden breastplate | E |
| Under the old stone Cross | F |
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| But actors lacking music | J |
| Do most excite my spleen | K |
| They say it is more human | L |
| To shuffle grunt and groan | M |
| Not knowing what unearthly stuff | N |
| Rounds a mighty scene | K |
| Said the man in the golden breastplate | E |
| Under the old stone Cross | F |
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