Tale Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDCCEEFFCCFFGGHH FFFFIJCCCCCCCCCCKKFF LLMMCCFFNNCCCCCCCCOO FFPPFFLLFFQQRRCCSSTU UCCFFCCVVCCLLLLFFCCO ONNFFCCFFFFLLLLFFWXC CCCJ YYSSFFFFFFFZA2LLCCFF CCJJA2 WWFFFFFFWWCL CCL CLLF YB2CCVVCCHHC2C2QQCCC LTHE GENTLEMAN FARMER | A |
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Gwyn was a farmer whom the farmers all | B |
Who dwelt around 'the Gentleman' would call | B |
Whether in pure humility or pride | C |
They only knew and they would not decide | C |
Far different he from that dull plodding tribe | D |
Whom it was his amusement to describe | D |
Creatures no more enliven'd than a clod | C |
But treading still as their dull fathers trod | C |
Who lived in times when not a man had seen | E |
Corn sown by drill or thresh'd by a machine | E |
He was of those whose skill assigns the prize | F |
For creatures fed in pens and stalls and sties | F |
And who in places where improvers meet | C |
To fill the land with fatness had a seat | C |
Who in large mansions live like petty kings | F |
And speak of farms but as amusing things | F |
Who plans encourage and who journals keep | G |
And talk with lords about a breed of sheep | G |
Two are the species in this genus known | H |
One who is rich in his profession grown | H |
Who yearly finds his ample stores increase | F |
From fortune's favours and a favouring lease | F |
Who rides his hunter who his house adorns | F |
Who drinks his wine and his disbursements scorns | F |
Who freely lives and loves to show he can | I |
This is the Farmer made the Gentleman | J |
The second species from the world is sent | C |
Tired with its strife or with his wealth content | C |
In books and men beyond the former read | C |
To farming solely by a passion led | C |
Or by a fashion curious in his land | C |
Now planning much now changing what he plann'd | C |
Pleased by each trial not by failures vex'd | C |
And ever certain to succeed the next | C |
Quick to resolve and easy to persuade | C |
This is the Gentleman a farmer made | C |
Gwyn was of these he from the world withdrew | K |
Early in life his reasons known to few | K |
Some disappointments said some pure good sense | F |
The love of land the press of indolence | F |
His fortune known and coming to retire | L |
If not a Farmer men had call'd him 'Squire | L |
Forty and five his years no child or wife | M |
Cross'd the still tenour of his chosen life | M |
Much land he purchased planted far around | C |
And let some portions of superfluous ground | C |
To farmers near him not displeased to say | F |
'My tenants ' nor 'our worthy landlord ' they | F |
Fix'd in his farm he soon display'd his skill | N |
In small boned lambs the horse hoe and the drill | N |
From these he rose to themes of nobler kind | C |
And show'd the riches of a fertile mind | C |
To all around their visits he repaid | C |
And thus his mansion and himself display'd | C |
His rooms were stately rather fine than neat | C |
And guests politely call'd his house a Seat | C |
At much expense was each apartment graced | C |
His taste was gorgeous but it still was taste | C |
In full festoons the crimson curtains fell | O |
The sofas rose in bold elastic swell | O |
Mirrors in gilded frames display'd the tints | F |
Of glowing carpets and of colour'd prints | F |
The weary eye saw every object shine | P |
And all was costly fanciful and fine | P |
As with his friends he pass'd the social hours | F |
His generous spirit scorn'd to hide its powers | F |
Powers unexpected for his eye and air | L |
Gave no sure signs that eloquence was there | L |
Oft he began with sudden fire and force | F |
As loth to lose occasion for discourse | F |
Some 'tis observed who feel a wish to speak | Q |
Will a due place for introduction seek | Q |
On to their purpose step by step they steal | R |
And all their way by certain signals feel | R |
Others plunge in at once and never heed | C |
Whose turn they take whose purpose they impede | C |
Resolved to shine they hasten to begin | S |
Of ending thoughtless and of these was Gwyn | S |
And thus he spake | T |
'It grieves me to the soul | U |
To see how man submits to man's control | U |
How overpower'd and shackled minds are led | C |
In vulgar tracks and to submission bred | C |
The coward never on himself relies | F |
But to an equal for assistance flies | F |
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate | C |
In all things ruled mind body and estate | C |
In pain in sickness we for cure apply | V |
To them we know not and we know not why | V |
But that the creature has some jargon read | C |
And got some Scotchman's system in his head | C |
Some grave impostor who will health ensure | L |
Long as your patience or your wealth endure | L |
But mark them well the pale and sickly crew | L |
They have not health and can they give it you | L |
These solemn cheats their various methods choose | F |
A system fires them as a bard his muse | F |
Hence wordy wars arise the learn'd divide | C |
And groaning patients curse each erring guide | C |
'Next our affairs are govern'd buy or sell | O |
Upon the deed the law must fix its spell | O |
Whether we hire or let we must have still | N |
The dubious aid of an attorney's skill | N |
They take a part in every man's affairs | F |
And in all business some concern is theirs | F |
Because mankind in ways prescribed are found | C |
Like flocks that follow on a beaten ground | C |
Each abject nature in the way proceeds | F |
That now to shearing now to slaughter leads | F |
Should you offend though meaning no offence | F |
You have no safety in your innocence | F |
The statute broken then is placed in view | L |
And men must pay for crimes they never knew | L |
Who would by law regain his plunder'd store | L |
Would pick up fallen merc'ry from the floor | L |
If he pursue it here and there it slides | F |
He would collect it but it more divides | F |
This part and this he stops but still in vain | W |
It slips aside and breaks in parts again | X |
Till after time and pains and care and cost | C |
He finds his labour and his object lost | C |
But most it grieves me friends alone are round | C |
To see a man in priestly fetters bound | C |
Guides to the soul these friends of Heaven | J |
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contrive | Y |
Long as man lives to keep his fears alive | Y |
Soon as an infant breathes their rites begin | S |
Who knows not sinning must be freed from sin | S |
Who needs no bond must yet engage in vows | F |
Who has no judgment must a creed espouse | F |
Advanced in life our boys are bound by rules | F |
Are catechised in churches cloisters schools | F |
And train'd in thraldom to be fit for tools | F |
The youth grown up he now a partner needs | F |
And lo a priest as soon as he succeeds | F |
What man of sense can marriage rites approve | Z |
What man of spirit can be bound to love | A2 |
Forced to be kind compell'd to be sincere | L |
Do chains and fetters make companions dear | L |
Pris'ners indeed we bind but though the bond | C |
May keep them safe it does not make them fond | C |
The ring the vow the witness licence prayers | F |
All parties known made public all affairs | F |
Such forms men suffer and from these they date | C |
A deed of love begun with all they hate | C |
Absurd that none the beaten road should shun | J |
But love to do what other dupes have done | J |
'Well now your priest has made you one of | A2 |
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twain | W |
Look you for rest Alas you look in vain | W |
If sick he comes you cannot die in peace | F |
Till he attends to witness your release | F |
To vex your soul and urge you to confess | F |
The sins you feel remember or can guess | F |
Nay when departed to your grave he goes | F |
But there indeed he hurts not your repose | F |
'Such are our burthens part we must sustain | W |
But need not link new grievance to the chain | W |
Yet men like idiots will their frames surround | C |
With these vile shackles nor confess they're | L |
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bound | C |
In all that most confines them they confide | C |
Their slavery boast and make their bonds their | L |
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pride | C |
E'en as the pressure galls them they declare | L |
Good souls how happy and how free they are | L |
As madmen pointing round their wretched cells | F |
Cry 'Lo the palace where our honour dwells ' | - |
'Such is our state but I resolve to live | Y |
By rules my reason and my feelings give | B2 |
No legal guards shall keep enthrall'd my mind | C |
No Slaves command me and no teachers blind | C |
Tempted by sins let me their strength defy | V |
But have no second in a surplice by | V |
No bottle holder with officious aid | C |
To comfort conscience weaken'd and afraid | C |
Then if I yield my frailty is not known | H |
And if I stand the glory is my own | H |
'When Truth and Reason are our friends we seem | C2 |
Alive awake the superstitious dream | C2 |
Oh then fair truth for thee alone I seek | Q |
Friend to the wise supporter of the weak | Q |
From thee we learn whate'er is right and just | C |
Forms to despise professions to distrust | C |
Creeds to reject pretensions to deride | C |
And following thee to follow none beside ' | - |
Su | L |
George Crabbe
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