Sonnet V. To A Friend, Who Thinks Sensibility A Misfortune Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| Ah thankless canst thou envy him who gains | A |
| The Stoic's cold and indurate repose | B |
| Thou with thy lively sense of bliss and woes | B |
| From a false balance of life's joys and pains | A |
| Thou deem'st him happy Plac'd 'mid fair domains | A |
| Where full the river down the valley flows | B |
| As wisely might'st thou wish thy home had rose | B |
| On the parch'd surface of unwater'd plains | A |
| For that when long the heavy rain descends | C |
| Bursts over guardian banks their whelming tide | D |
| Seldom the wild and wasteful Flood extends | C |
| But spreading plenty verdure beauty wide | D |
| The cool translucent Stream perpetual bends | C |
| And laughs the Vale as the bright waters glide | D |
Anna Seward
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