Of English Verse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFF GGHI JJKK LMAA NNOP QQRR SSOP| Poets may boast as safely vain | A |
| Their works shall with the world remain | A |
| Both bound together live or die | B |
| The verses and the prophecy | C |
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| But who can hope his lines should long | D |
| Last in a daily changing tongue | E |
| While they are new envy prevails | F |
| And as that dies our language fails | F |
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| When architects have done their part | G |
| The matter may betray their art | G |
| Time if we use ill chosen stone | H |
| Soon brings a well built palace down | I |
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| Poets that lasting marble seek | J |
| Must carve in Latin or in Greek | J |
| We write in sand our language grows | K |
| And like the tide our work o'erflows | K |
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| Chaucer his sense can only boast | L |
| The glory of his numbers lost | M |
| Years have defaced his matchless strain | A |
| And yet he did not sing in vain | A |
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| The beauties which adorned that age | N |
| The shining subjects of his rage | N |
| Hoping they should immortal prove | O |
| Rewarded with success his love | P |
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| This was the generous poet's scope | Q |
| And all an English pen can hope | Q |
| To make the fair approve his flame | R |
| That can so far extend their fame | R |
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| Verse thus designed has no ill fate | S |
| If it arrive but at the date | S |
| Of fading beauty if it prove | O |
| But as long lived as present love | P |
Edmund Waller
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