To Mr John Moore, Author Of The Celebrated Worm-powder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNON PLQL RKRK EAEA STST| How much egregious Moore are we | A |
| Deceived by shows and forms | B |
| Whate'er we think whate'er we see | A |
| All humankind are worms | C |
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| Man is a very worm by birth | D |
| Vile reptile weak and vain | E |
| A while he crawls upon the earth | D |
| Then shrinks to earth again | F |
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| That woman is a worm we find | G |
| E'er since our grandame's evil | H |
| She first conversed with her own kind | G |
| That ancient worm the Devil | H |
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| The learn'd themselves we book worms name | I |
| The blockhead is a slow worm | J |
| The nymph whose tail is all on flame | I |
| Is aptly term'd a glow worm | J |
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| The fops are painted butterflies | K |
| That flutter for a day | L |
| First from a worm they take their rise | K |
| And in a worm decay | L |
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| The flatterer an earwig grows | M |
| Thus worms suit all conditions | N |
| Misers are muck worms silk worms beaux | O |
| And death watches physicians | N |
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| That statesmen have the worm is seen | P |
| By all their winding play | L |
| Their conscience is a worm within | Q |
| That gnaws them night and day | L |
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| Ah Moore thy skill were well employ'd | R |
| And greater gain would rise | K |
| If thou couldst make the courtier void | R |
| The worm that never dies | K |
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| O learned friend of Abchurch Lane | E |
| Who sett'st our entrails free | A |
| Vain is thy art thy powder vain | E |
| Since worms shall eat even thee | A |
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| Our fate thou only canst adjourn | S |
| Some few short years no more | T |
| Even Button's Wits to worms shall turn | S |
| Who maggots were before | T |
Alexander Pope
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