From An Essay On Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEBBFFGG HHBBIIJK LLCCBBMMNNOOP| Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate | A |
| All but the page prescrib'd their present state | A |
| From brutes what men from men what spirits know | B |
| Or who could suffer being here below | B |
| The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today | C |
| Had he thy reason would he skip and play | C |
| Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food | D |
| And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood | E |
| Oh blindness to the future kindly giv'n | B |
| That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n | B |
| Who sees with equal eye as God of all | F |
| A hero perish or a sparrow fall | F |
| Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd | G |
| And now a bubble burst and now a world | G |
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| Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar | H |
| Wait the great teacher Death and God adore | H |
| What future bliss he gives not thee to know | B |
| But gives that hope to be thy blessing now | B |
| Hope springs eternal in the human breast | I |
| Man never is but always to be blest | I |
| The soul uneasy and confin'd from home | J |
| Rests and expatiates in a life to come | K |
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| Lo the poor Indian whose untutor'd mind | L |
| Sees God in clouds or hears him in the wind | L |
| His soul proud science never taught to stray | C |
| Far as the solar walk or milky way | C |
| Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n | B |
| Behind the cloud topp'd hill an humbler heav'n | B |
| Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd | M |
| Some happier island in the wat'ry waste | M |
| Where slaves once more their native land behold | N |
| No fiends torment no Christians thirst for gold | N |
| To be contents his natural desire | O |
| He asks no angel's wing no seraph's fire | O |
| But thinks admitted to that equal sky | P |
Alexander Pope
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