Sonnet Lxxvi. To A Young Man Entering The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCEFEFGG| GO now ingenious youth The trying hour | A |
| Is come The world demands that thou shouldst go | B |
| To active life There titles wealth and power | A |
| May all be purchased Yet I joy to know | B |
| Thou wilt not pay their price The base control | C |
| Of petty despots in their pedant reign | D |
| Already hast thou felt and high disdain | D |
| Of tyrants is imprinted on thy soul | C |
| Not where mistaken Glory in the field | E |
| Rears her red banner be thou ever found | F |
| But against proud Oppression raise the shield | E |
| Of patriot daring So shalt thou renown'd | F |
| For the best virtues live or that denied | G |
| May'st die as Hampden or as Sydney died | G |
Charlotte Smith
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