To Cowper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBF GEHE IJKJ LMNM OKPK QJHJ RSCS TJUJ EVNV WXYX Z| Sweet are thy strains celestial Bard | A |
| And oft in childhood's years | B |
| I've read them o'er and o'er again | C |
| With floods of silent tears | D |
| The language of my inmost heart | E |
| I traced in every line | F |
| My sins my sorrows hopes and fears | B |
| Were there and only mine | F |
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| All for myself the sigh would swell | G |
| The tear of anguish start | E |
| I little knew what wilder woe | H |
| Had filled the Poet's heart | E |
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| I did not know the nights of gloom | I |
| The days of misery | J |
| The long long years of dark despair | K |
| That crushed and tortured thee | J |
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| But they are gone from earth at length | L |
| Thy gentle soul is pass'd | M |
| And in the bosom of its God | N |
| Has found its home at last | M |
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| It must be so if God is love | O |
| And answers fervent prayer | K |
| Then surely thou shalt dwell on high | P |
| And I may meet thee there | K |
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| Is he the source of every good | Q |
| The spring of purity | J |
| Then in thine hours of deepest woe | H |
| Thy God was still with thee | J |
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| How else when every hope was fled | R |
| Couldst thou so fondly cling | S |
| To holy things and holy men | C |
| And how so sweetly sing | S |
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| Of things that God alone could teach | T |
| And whence that purity | J |
| That hatred of all sinful ways | U |
| That gentle charity | J |
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| Are these the symptoms of a heart | E |
| Of heavenly grace bereft | V |
| For ever banished from its God | N |
| To Satan's fury left | V |
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| Yet should thy darkest fears be true | W |
| If Heaven be so severe | X |
| That such a soul as thine is lost | Y |
| Oh how shall I appear | X |
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| Acton | Z |
Anne Bronta
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