To Cowper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBF GEHE IJKJ LMNM OKPK QJHJ RSCS TJUJ EVNV WXYX ZSweet 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 |
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