Part Of The Ninth Ode Of The Fourth Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GGHH| Lest you should think that verse shall die | A |
| Which sounds the silver Thames along | B |
| Taught on the wings of truth to fly | A |
| Above the reach of vulgar song | B |
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| Though daring Milton sits sublime | C |
| In Spenser native Muses play | D |
| Nor yet shall Waller yield to time | C |
| Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay | D |
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| Sages and chiefs long since had birth | E |
| Ere Caesar was or Newton named | F |
| These raised new empires o'er the earth | E |
| And those new heavens and systems framed | F |
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| Vain was the chief's the sage's pride | G |
| They had no poet and they died | G |
| In vain they schemed in vain they bled | H |
| They had no poet and are dead | H |
Alexander Pope
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