Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDE F G F H H H H H H H I I J K F F L F M N O P I Q R S I F T U H T H T T V F T T I F T F W H R T I F T R F X I F X H X I F Y Q Z H I Q Q T X X Q F A2 B2 H Q F T I X X F I H I C2 H F X H D2 T T T T Q T Q H Q T X Q Q Q Q T Q Q Q Q Q X E2 X F X I I| For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping | A |
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| For a toad enjoys a finer prospect than another creature to compensate his lack | B |
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| Tho' toad I am the object of man's hate | C |
| Yet better am I than a reprobate who has the worst of prospects | D |
| For there are stones whose constituent particles are little toads | E |
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| For the spiritual musick is as follows | F |
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| For there is the thunder stop which is the voice of God direct | G |
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| For the rest of the stops are by their rhimes | F |
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| For the trumpet rhimes are sound bound soar more and the like | H |
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| For the Shawm rhimes are lawn fawn moon boon and the like | H |
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| For the harp rhimes are sing ring string and the like | H |
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| For the cymbal rhimes are bell well toll soul and the like | H |
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| For the flute rhimes are tooth youth suit mute and the like | H |
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| For the dulcimer rhimes are grace place beat heat and the like | H |
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| For the Clarinet rhimes are clean seen and the like | H |
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| For the Bassoon rhimes are pass class and the like God be gracious to Baumgarden | I |
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| For the dulcimer are rather van fan and the like and grace place c are of the bassoon | I |
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| For beat heat weep peep c are of the pipe | J |
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| For every word has its marrow in the English tongue for order and for delight | K |
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| For the dissyllables such as able table c are the fiddle rhimes | F |
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| For all dissyllables and some trissyllables are fiddle rhimes | F |
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| For the relations of words are in pairs first | L |
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| For the relations of words are sometimes in oppositions | F |
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| For the relations of words are according to their distances from the pair | M |
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| For there be twelve cardinal virtues the gifts of the twelve sons of Jacob | N |
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| For Reuben is Great God be gracious to Lord Falmouth | O |
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| For Simeon is Valiant God be gracious to the Duke of Somerset | P |
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| For Levi is Pious God be gracious to the Bishop of London | I |
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| For Judah is Good God be gracious to Lord Granville | Q |
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| For Dan is Clean neat dextrous apt active compact God be gracious to Draper | R |
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| For Naphtali is sublime God be gracious to Chesterfield | S |
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| For Gad is Contemplative God be gracious to Lord Northampton | I |
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| For Ashur is Happy God be gracious to George Bowes | F |
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| For Issachar is strong God be gracious to the Duke of Dorsett | T |
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| For Zabulon is Constant God be gracious to Lord Bath | U |
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| For Joseph is Pleasant God be gracious to Lord Bolingbroke | H |
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| For Benjamin is Wise God be gracious to Honeywood | T |
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| For all Foundation is from God depending | H |
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| For the two Universities are the Eyes of England | T |
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| For Cambridge is the right and the brightest | T |
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| For Pembroke Hall was founded more in the Lord than any College in Cambridge | V |
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| For mustard is the proper food of birds and men are bound to cultivate it for their use | F |
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| For they that study the works of God are peculiarly assisted by his Spirit | T |
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| For all the creatures mentiond by Pliny are somewhere or other extant to the glory of God | T |
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| For Rye is food rather for fowls than men | I |
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| For Rye bread is not taken with thankfulness | F |
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| For the lack of Rye may be supplied by Spelt | T |
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| For languages work into one another by their bearings | F |
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| For the power of some animal is predominant in every language | W |
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| For the power and spirit of a CAT is in the Greek | H |
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| For the sound of a cat is in the most useful preposition ' | - |
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| For the pleasantry of a cat at pranks is in the language ten thousand times over | R |
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| For JACK UPON PRANCK is in the performance of g together or seperate | T |
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| For Clapperclaw is in the grappling of the words upon one another in all the modes of versification | I |
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| For the sleekness of a Cat is in his | F |
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| For the Greek is thrown from heaven and falls upon its feet | T |
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| For the Greek when distracted from the line is sooner restored to rank and rallied into some form than any other | R |
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| For the purring of a Cat is his | F |
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| For his cry is in which I am sorry for | X |
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| For the Mouse Mus prevails in the Latin | I |
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| For Edi mus bibi mus vivi mus ore mus | F |
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| For the Mouse is a creature of great personal valour | X |
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| For this is a true case Cat takes female mouse from the company of male male mouse will not depart but stands threatning and daring | H |
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| For this is as much as to challenge if you will let her go I will engage you as prodigious a creature as you are | X |
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| For the Mouse is of an hospitable disposition | I |
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| For bravery and hospitality were said and done by the Romans rather than others | F |
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| For two creatures the Bull and the Dog prevail in the English | Y |
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| For all the words ending in ble are in the creature Invisi ble Incomprehensi ble ineffa ble A ble | Q |
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| For the Greek and Latin are not dead languages but taken up and accepted for the sake of him that spake them | Z |
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| For can is canis is cause and effect a dog | H |
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| For the English is concise and strong Dog and Bull again | I |
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| For Newton's notion of colours is unphilosophical | Q |
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| For the colours are spiritual | Q |
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| For WHITE is the first and the best | T |
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| For there are many intermediate colours before you come to SILVER | X |
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| For the next colour is a lively GREY | X |
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| For the next colour is BLUE | Q |
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| For the next is GREEN of which there are ten thousand distinct sorts | F |
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| For the next is YELLOW which is more excellent than red tho Newton makes red the prime God be gracious to John Delap | A2 |
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| For RED is the next working round the Orange | B2 |
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| For Red is of sundry sorts till it deepens to BLACK | H |
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| For black blooms and it is PURPLE | Q |
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| For purple works off to BROWN which is of ten thousand acceptable shades | F |
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| For the next is PALE God be gracious to William Whitehead | T |
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| For pale works about to White again | I |
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| NOW that colour is spiritual appears inasmuch as the blessing of God upon all things descends in colour | X |
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| For the blessing of health upon the human face is in colour | X |
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| For the blessing of God upon purity is in the Virgin's blushes | F |
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| For the blessing of God in colour is on him that keeps his virgin | I |
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| For I saw a blush in Staindrop Church which was of God's own colouring | H |
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| For it was the benevolence of a virgin shewn to me before the whole congregation | I |
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| For the blessing of God upon the grass is in shades of Green visible to a nice observer as they light upon the surface of the earth | C2 |
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| For the blessing of God unto perfection in all bloom and fruit is by colouring | H |
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| For from hence something in the spirit may be taken off by painters | F |
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| For Painting is a species of idolatry tho' not so gross as statuary | X |
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| For it is not good to look with earning upon any dead work | H |
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| For by so doing something is lost in the spirit and given from life to death | D2 |
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| For BULL in the first place is the word of Almighty God | T |
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| For he is a creature of infinite magnitude in the height | T |
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| For there is the model of every beast of the field in the height | T |
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| For they are blessed intelligences and all angels of the living God | T |
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| For there are many words under Bull | Q |
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| For Bul the Month is under it | T |
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| For Sea is under Bull | Q |
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| For Brook is under Bull God be gracious to Lord Bolingbroke | H |
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| For Rock is under Bull | Q |
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| For Bullfinch is under Bull God be gracious to the Duke of Cleveland | T |
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| For God which always keeps his work in view has paited a Bullfinch in the heart of a stone God be gracious to Gosling and Canterbury | X |
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| For the Bluecap is under Bull | Q |
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| For the Humming Bird is under Bull | Q |
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| For Beetle is under Bull | Q |
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| For Toad is under bull | Q |
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| For Frog is under Bull which he has a delight to look at | T |
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| For the Pheasant eyed Pink is under Bull Blessed Jesus R NK EL | Q |
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| For Bugloss is under Bull | Q |
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| For Bugle is under Bull | Q |
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| For Oxeye is under Bull | Q |
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| For Fire is under Bull | Q |
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| For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry | X |
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| For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him | E2 |
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| For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way | X |
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| For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness | F |
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| For then he leaps up to catch the musk which is the blessing of God upon his prayer | X |
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| For he rolls upon prank to work it in | I |
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| For having done | I |
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