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The Ghost - Book I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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With eager search to dart the soul	A
Curiously vain from pole to pole	A
And from the planets' wandering spheres	B
To extort the number of our years	B
And whether all those years shall flow	C
Serenely smooth and free from woe	C
Or rude misfortune shall deform	D
Our life with one continual storm	D
Or if the scene shall motley be	E
Alternate joy and misery	E
Is a desire which more or less	F
All men must feel though few confess	F
Hence every place and every age	G
Affords subsistence to the sage	G
Who free from this world and its cares	H
Holds an acquaintance with the stars	I
From whom he gains intelligence	J
Of things to come some ages hence	K
Which unto friends at easy rates	L
He readily communicates	L
At its first rise which all agree on	M
This noble science was Chaldean	M
That ancient people as they fed	N
Their flocks upon the mountain's head	N
Gazed on the stars observed their motions	O
And suck'd in astrologic notions	O
Which they so eagerly pursue	P
As folks are apt whate'er is new	P
That things below at random rove	Q
Whilst they're consulting things above	R
And when they now so poor were grown	M
That they'd no houses of their own	M
They made bold with their friends the stars	I
And prudently made use of theirs	H
To Egypt from Chaldee it travell'd	S
And Fate at Memphis was unravell'd	S
The exotic science soon struck root	S
And flourish'd into high repute	S
Each learned priest oh strange to tell	T
Could circles make and cast a spell	T
Could read and write and taught the nation	M
The holy art of divination	M
Nobles themselves for at that time	U
Knowledge in nobles was no crime	U
Could talk as learned as the priest	S
And prophesy as much at least	S
Hence all the fortune telling crew	P
Whose crafty skill mars Nature's hue	P
Who in vile tatters with smirch'd face	V
Run up and down from place to place	V
To gratify their friends' desires	W
From Bampfield Carew to Moll Squires	W
Are rightly term'd Egyptians all	X
Whom we mistaking Gypsies call	X
The Grecian sages borrow'd this	Y
As they did other sciences	Z
From fertile Egypt though the loan	M
They had not honesty to own	M
Dodona's oaks inspired by Jove	R
A learned and prophetic grove	R
Turn'd vegetable necromancers	Z
And to all comers gave their answers	Z
At Delphos to Apollo dear	A2
All men the voice of Fate might hear	B2
Each subtle priest on three legg'd stool	C2
To take in wise men play'd the fool	C2
A mystery so made for gain	M
E'en now in fashion must remain	M
Enthusiasts never will let drop	D2
What brings such business to their shop	D2
And that great saint we Whitefield call	X
Keeps up the humbug spiritual	E2
Among the Romans not a bird	S
Without a prophecy was heard	S
Fortunes of empires often hung	F2
On the magician magpie's tongue	F2
And every crow was to the state	S
A sure interpreter of Fate	S
Prophets embodied in a college	G2
Time out of mind your seat of knowledge	H2
For genius never fruit can bear	I2
Unless it first is planted there	I2
And solid learning never falls	Z
Without the verge of college walls	Z
Infallible accounts would keep	J2
When it was best to watch or sleep	J2
To eat or drink to go or stay	S
And when to fight or run away	S
When matters were for action ripe	K2
By looking at a double tripe	K2
When emperors would live or die	S
They in an ass's skull could spy	S
When generals would their station keep	J2
Or turn their backs in hearts of sheep	J2
In matters whether small or great	S
In private families or state	S
As amongst us the holy seer	B2
Officiously would interfere	A2
With pious arts and reverend skill	L2
Would bend lay bigots to his will	L2
Would help or injure foes or friends	Z
Just as it served his private ends	Z
Whether in honest way of trade	S
Traps for virginity were laid	S
Or if to make their party great	S
Designs were form'd against the state	S
Regardless of the common weal	L2
By interest led which they call zeal	L2
Into the scale was always thrown	M
The will of Heaven to back their own	M
England a happy land we know	M
Where follies naturally grow	M
Where without culture they arise	Z
And tower above the common size	Z
England a fortune telling host	S
As numerous as the stars could boast	S
Matrons who toss the cup and see	Z
The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea	Z
Who versed in every modest lore	M2
Can a lost maidenhead restore	M2
Or if their pupils rather choose it	S
Can show the readiest way to lose it	S
Gypsies who every ill can cure	N2
Except the ill of being poor	O2
Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell	L2
Who can in hen roost set a spell	L2
Prepared by arts to them best known	M
To catch all feet except their own	M
Who as to fortune can unlock it	S
As easily as pick a pocket	S
Scotchmen who in their country's right	S
Possess the gift of second sight	S
Who when their barren heaths they quit	S
Sure argument of prudent wit	S
Which reputation to maintain	M
They never venture back again	M
By lies prophetic heap up riches	Z
And boast the luxury of breeches	Z
Amongst the rest in former years	Z
Campbell illustrious name appears	Z
Great hero of futurity	S
Who blind could every thing foresee	Z
Who dumb could every thing foretell	L2
Who Fate with equity to sell	L2
Always dealt out the will of Heaven	M
According to what price was given	M
Of Scottish race in Highlands born	M
Possess'd with native pride and scorn	M
He hither came by custom led	S
To curse the hands which gave him bread	S
With want of truth and want of sense	Z
Amply made up by impudence	Z
A succedaneum which we find	S
In common use with all mankind	S
Caress'd and favour'd too by those	Z
Whose heart with patriot feelings glows	Z
Who foolishly where'er dispersed	S
Still place their native country first	S
For Englishmen alone have sense	Z
To give a stranger preference	Z
Whilst modest merit of their own	M
Is left in poverty to groan	M
Campbell foretold just what he would	S
And left the stars to make it good	S
On whom he had impress'd such awe	P2
His dictates current pass'd for law	L2
Submissive all his empire own'd	S
No star durst smile when Campbell frown'd	S
This sage deceased for all must die	S
And Campbell's no more safe than I	S
No more than I can guard the heart	S
When Death shall hurl the fatal dart	S
Succeeded ripe in art and years	Z
Another favourite of the spheres	Z
Another and another came	Q2
Of equal skill and equal fame	Q2
As white each wand as black each gown	M
As long each beard as wise each frown	M
In every thing so like you'd swear	I2
Campbell himself was sitting there	I2
To all the happy art was known	M
To tell our fortunes make their own	M
Seated in garret for you know	M
The nearer to the stars we go	M
The greater we esteem his art	S
Fools curious flock'd from every part	S
The rich the poor the maid the married	S
And those who could not walk were carried	S
The butler hanging down his head	S
By chambermaid or cookmaid led	S
Inquires if from his friend the Moon	M
He has advice of pilfer'd spoon	M
The court bred woman of condition	M
Who to approve her disposition	M
As much superior as her birth	R2
To those composed of common earth	R2
With double spirit must engage	G
In every folly of the age	G
The honourable arts would buy	S
To pack the cards and cog a die	S
The hero who for brawn and face	Z
May claim right honourable place	Z
Amongst the chiefs of Butcher row	M
Who might some thirty years ago	M
If we may be allow'd to guess	Z
At his employment by his dress	Z
Put medicines off from cart or stage	G
The grand Toscano of the age	G
Or might about the country go	M
High steward of a puppet show	M
Steward and stewardship most meet	S
For all know puppets never eat	S
Who would be thought though save the mark	S2
That point is something in the dark	S2
The man of honour one like those	Z
Renown'd in story who loved blows	Z
Better than victuals and would fight	S
Merely for sport from morn to night	S
Who treads like Mavors firm whose tongue	F2
Is with the triple thunder hung	F2
Who cries to Fear 'Stand off aloof '	T2
And talks as he were cannon proof	R
Would be deem'd ready w	T2