To A Wealthy Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHIHIJKJKLMLN OPOPQRQR SGSFTUTU| You gave but will not give again | A |
| Until enough of Paudeen's pence | B |
| By Biddy's halfpennies have lain | C |
| To be 'some sort of evidence ' | D |
| Before you'll put your guineas down | E |
| That things it were a pride to give | F |
| Are what the blind and ignorant town | E |
| Imagines best to make it thrive | G |
| What cared Duke Ercole that bid | H |
| His mummers to the market place | I |
| What th' onion sellers thought or did | H |
| So that his Plautus set the pace | I |
| For the Italian comedies | J |
| And Guidobaldo when he made | K |
| That grammar school of courtesies | J |
| Where wit and beauty learned their trade | K |
| Upon Urbino's windy hill | L |
| Had sent no runners to and fro | M |
| That he might learn the shepherds' will | L |
| And when they drove out Cosimo | N |
| Indifferent how the rancour ran | O |
| He gave the hours they had set free | P |
| To Michelozzo's latest plan | O |
| For the San Marco Library | P |
| Whence turbulent Italy should draw | Q |
| Delight in Art whose end is peace | R |
| In logic and in natural law | Q |
| By sucking at the dugs of Greece | R |
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| Your open hand but shows our loss | S |
| For he knew better how to live | G |
| Let Paudeens play at pitch and toss | S |
| Look up in the sun's eye and give | F |
| What the exultant heart calls good | T |
| That some new day may breed the best | U |
| Because you gave not what they would | T |
| But the right twigs for an eagle's nest | U |
William Butler Yeats
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