The Atheist And The Acorn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEDDE FGFFG HIHHI JIJJK ILIIL| Methinks this World is oddly made | A |
| And ev'ry thing's amiss | B |
| A dull presuming Atheist said | C |
| As stretch'd he lay beneath a Shade | A |
| And instanced in this | B |
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| Behold quoth he that mighty thing | D |
| A Pumpkin large and round | E |
| Is held but by a little String | D |
| Which upwards cannot make it spring | D |
| Or bear it from the Ground | E |
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| Whilst on this Oak a Fruit so small | F |
| So disproportion'd grows | G |
| That who with Sence surveys this All | F |
| This universal Casual Ball | F |
| Its ill Contrivance knows | G |
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| My better Judgment wou'd have hung | H |
| That Weight upon a Tree | I |
| And left this Mast thus slightly strung | H |
| 'Mongst things which on the Surface sprung | H |
| And small and feeble be | I |
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| No more the Caviller cou'd say | J |
| Nor farther Faults descry | I |
| For as he upwards gazing lay | J |
| An Acorn loosen'd from the Stay | J |
| Fell down upon his Eye | K |
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| Th' offended Part with Tears ran o'er | I |
| As punish'd for the Sin | L |
| Fool had that Bough a Pumpkin bore | I |
| Thy Whimseys must have work'd no more | I |
| Nor Scull had kept them in | L |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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