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Resignation Pt 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The days how few how short the years	A
Of man's too rapid race	B
Each leaving as it swiftly flies	C
A shorter in its place	B
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They who the longest lease enjoy	D
Have told us with a sigh	E
That to be born seems little more	F
Than to begin to die	E
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Numbers there are who feel this truth	G
With fears alarm'd and yet	H
In life's delusions lull'd asleep	I
This weighty truth forget	H
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And am not I to these akin	J
Age slumbers o'er the quill	K
Its honour blots whate'er it writes	L
And am I writing still	K
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Conscious of nature in decline	M
And languor in my thoughts	N
To soften censure and abate	O
Its rigour on my faults	P
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Permit me madam ere to you	Q
The promis'd verse I pay	R
To touch on felt infirmity	S
Sad sister of decay	R
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One world deceas'd another born	T
Like Noah they behold	U
O'er whose white hairs and furrow'd brows	V
Too many suns have roll'd	U
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Happy the patriarch he rejoic'd	W
His second world to see	S
My second world though gay the scene	X
Can boast no charms for me	S
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To me this brilliant age appears	A
With desolation spread	Y
Near all with whom I liv'd and smil'd	Z
Whilst life was life are dead	Y
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And with them died my joys the grave	A2
Has broken nature's laws	B2
And clos'd against this feeble frame	C2
Its partial cruel jaws	B2
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Cruel to spare condemn'd to life	D2
A cloud impairs my sight	E2
My weak hand disobeys my will	K
And trembles as I write	E2
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What shall I write Thalia tell	F2
Say long abandon'd muse	G2
What field of fancy shall I range	H2
What subject shall I choose	G2
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A choice of moment high inspire	I2
And rescue me from shame	C2
For doting on thy charms so late	O
By grandeur in my theme	J2
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Beyond the themes which most admire	I2
Which dazzle or amaze	K2
Beyond renown'd exploits of war	F
Bright charms or empire's blaze	K2
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Are themes which in a world of woe	L2
Can best appease our pain	M2
And in an age of gaudy guilt	N2
Gay folly's flood restrain	M2
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Amidst the storms of life support	O2
A calm unshaken mind	P2
And with unfading laurels crown	Q2
The brow of the resign'd	P2
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O resignation yet unsung	R2
Untouch'd by former strains	S2
Though claiming every muse's smile	T2
And every poet's pains	S2
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Beneath life's evening solemn shade	U2
I dedicate my page	V2
To thee thou safest guard of youth	G
Thou sole support of age	V2
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All other duties crescents are	W2
Of virtue faintly bright	E2
The glorious consummation thou	X2
Which fills her orb with light	E2
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How rarely fill'd the love divine	M
In evils to discern	Y2
This the first lesson which we want	Z2
The latest which we learn	Y2
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A melancholy truth for know	L2
Could our proud hearts resign	M
The distance greatly would decrease	A3
'Twixt human and divine	M
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But though full noble is my theme	J2
Full urgent is my call	B3
To soften sorrow and forbid	C3
The bursting tear to fall	B3
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The task I dread dare I to leave	D3
Of humble prose the shore	F
And put to sea a dangerous sea	S
What throngs have sunk before	F
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How proud the poet's billow swells	E3
The God the God his boast	F3
A boast how vain What wrecks abound	G3
Dead bards stench every coast	F3
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What then am I Shall I presume	H3
On such a moulten wing	I3
Above the general wreck to rise	C
And in my winter sing	I3
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When nightingales when sweetest bards	C
Confine their charming song	J3
To summer's animating heats	C
Content to warble young	R2
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Yet write I must a lady sues	C
How shameful her request	K3
My brain in labour for dull rhyme	L3
Hers teeming with the best	K3
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But you a stranger will excuse	C
Nor scorn his feeble strain	M2
To you a stranger but through fate	O
No stranger to your pain	M2
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The ghost of grief deceas'd ascends	C
His old wound bleeds anew	Q
His sorrows are recall'd to life	D2
By those he sees in you	Q
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Too well he knows the twisting strings	C
Of ardent hearts combin'd	P2
When rent asunder how they bleed	M3
How hard to be resign'd	P2
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Those tears you pour his eyes have shed	Y
The pang you feel he felt	N3
Thus nature loud as virtue bids	C
His heart at yours to melt	N3
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But what can heart or head suggest	K3
What sad experience say	C
Through truths austere to peace we work	O3
Our rugged gloomy way	C
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What are we whence for what and whither	P3
Who know not needs must mourn	T
But thought bright daughter of the skies	C
Can tears to triumph turn	Y2
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Thought is our armour 'tis the mind's	C
Impenetrable shield	Q3
When sent by fate we meet our foes	C
In sore affliction's field	Q3
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It plucks the frightful mask from ills	C
Forbids pale fear to hide	R3
Beneath that dark disguise a friend	S3
Which turns affection's tide	R3
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Affection frail train'd up by sense	C
From reason's channel strays	C
And whilst it blindly points at peace	C
Our peace to pain betrays	C
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Thought winds its fond erroneous stream	J2
From daily dying flowers	C
To nourish rich immortal blooms	C
In amaranthine bowers	C
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Whence throngs in ecstasy look down	Q2
On what once shock'd their sight	E2
And thank the terrors of the past	T3
For ages of delight	E2
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All withers here who most possess	C
Are losers by their gain	M2
Stung by full proof that bad at best	K3
Life's idle all is vain	M2
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Vain in its course life's murmuring stream	J2
Did not its course offend	S3
But murmur cease life then would seem	J2
Still vainer from its end	S3
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How wretched who through cruel fate	O
Have nothing to lament	U3
With the poor alms this world affords	C
Deplorably content	U3
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Had not the Greek his world mistook	V3
His wish had been most wise	C
To be content with but one world	W3
Like him we should despise	C
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Of earth's revenue would you state	O
A full account and fair	X3
We hope and hope and hope then cast	T3
The total up	Y3
Despair	X3
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Since vain all here all future vast	T3
Embrace the lot assign'd	P2
Heaven wounds to heal its frowns are friends	C
Its stroke severe most kind	P2
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But in laps'd nature rooted deep	I
Blind error domineers	C
And on fools' errands in the dark	Z3
Sends out our hopes and fears	C
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Bids us for ever pains deplore	F
Our pleasures overprize	C
These oft persuade us to be weak	A4
Those urge us to be wise	C
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From virtue's rugged path to right	E2
By pleasure are we brought	B4
To flowery fields of wrong and there	X3
Pain chides us for our fault	C4
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Yet whilst it chides it speaks of peace	C
If folly is withstood	D4
And says time pays an easy price	C
For our eternal good	D4
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In earth's dark cot and in an hour	P3
And in delusion great	O
What an economist is man	E4
To spend his whole estate	O
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And beggar an eternity	S
For which as he was born	T
More worlds than one against it weigh'd	U2
As feathers he should scorn	T
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Say not your loss in triumph leads	C
Religion's feeble strife	D2
Joys future amply reimburse	C
Joys bankrupts of this life	D2
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But not deferr'd your joy so long	J3
It bears an early date	O
Affliction's ready pay in hand	F4
Befriends our present state	O
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What are the tears which trickle down	Q2
Her melancholy face	C
Like liquid pearl Like pearls of price	C
They purchase lasting peace	C
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Grief softens hearts and curbs the will	K
Impetuous passion tames	C
And keeps insatiate keen desire	P3
From launching in extremes	C
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Through time's dark womb our judgment right	E2
If our dim eye was thrown	G4
Clear should we see the will divine	M
Has but forestall'd our own	G4
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At variance with our future wish	H4
Self sever'd we complain	M2
If so the wounded not the wound	G3
Must answer for the pain	M2