Tale Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKLMM NNOOPPQRSSTTUUIIVVWW TH TXXYYZZA2A2B2B2C2C2D 2D2E2E2F2F2EEG2G2T H2H2D2T D2I2I2J2J2EEXXYK2L2L 2F2F2TTB2B2M2D2N2N2T TO2O2K2K2TTPPP2A2UUG 2 TTQ2Q2MMR2R2S2S2TTX JJT2T2U2U2V2V2W2W2TT R2R2X2X2XXTTB2B2Y2Y2 UUZ2Z2A3A3B3B3B2B2C3 C3N2N2N2N2DDT DN2N2N2N2N2N2L2L2V2D 3N2N2TTN2THE FRANK COURTSHIP | A |
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Grave Jonas Kindred Sybil Kindred's sire | B |
Was six feet high and look'd six inches higher | B |
Erect morose determined solemn slow | C |
Who knew the man could never cease to know | C |
His faithful spouse when Jonas was not by | D |
Had a firm presence and a steady eye | D |
But with her husband dropp'd her look and tone | E |
And Jonas ruled unquestion'd and alone | E |
He read and oft would quote the sacred words | F |
How pious husbands of their wives were lords | G |
Sarah called Abraham Lord and who could be | H |
So Jonas thought a greater man than he | H |
Himself he view'd with undisguised respect | I |
And never pardon'd freedom or neglect | I |
They had one daughter and this favourite child | J |
Had oft the father of his spleen beguiled | J |
Soothed by attention from her early years | K |
She gained all wishes by her smiles or tears | L |
But Sybil then was in that playful time | M |
When contradiction is not held a crime | M |
When parents yield their children idle praise | N |
For faults corrected in their after days | N |
Peace in the sober house of Jonas dwelt | O |
Where each his duty and his station felt | O |
Yet not that peace some favour'd mortals find | P |
In equal views and harmony of mind | P |
Not the soft peace that blesses those who love | Q |
Where all with one consent in union move | R |
But it was that which one superior will | S |
Commands by making all inferiors still | S |
Who bids all murmurs all objections cease | T |
And with imperious voice announces Peace | T |
They were to wit a remnant of that crew | U |
Who as their foes maintain their Sovereign slew | U |
An independent race precise correct | I |
Who ever married in the kindred sect | I |
No son or daughter of their order wed | V |
A friend to England's king who lost his head | V |
Cromwell was still their Saint and when they met | W |
They mourn'd that Saints were not our rulers yet | W |
Fix'd were their habits they arose betimes | T |
Then pray'd their hour and sang their party | H |
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rhymes | T |
Their meals were plenteous regular and plain | X |
The trade of Jonas brought him constant gain | X |
Vender of hops and malt of coals and corn | Y |
And like his father he was merchant born | Y |
Neat was their house each table chair and stool | Z |
Stood in its place or moving moved by rule | Z |
No lively print or picture graced the room | A2 |
A plain brown paper lent its decent gloom | A2 |
But here the eye in glancing round survey'd | B2 |
A small recess that seem'd for china made | B2 |
Such pleasing pictures seem'd this pencill'd ware | C2 |
That few would search for nobler objects there | C2 |
Yet turn'd by chosen friends and there appear'd | D2 |
His stern strong features whom they all revered | D2 |
For there in lofty air was seen to stand | E2 |
The bold Protector of the conquer'd land | E2 |
Drawn in that look with which he wept and swore | F2 |
Turn'd out the Members and made fast the door | F2 |
Ridding the House of every knave and drone | E |
Forced though it grieved his soul to rule alone | E |
The stern still smile each friend approving gave | G2 |
Then turn'd the view and all again were grave | G2 |
There stood a clock though small the owner's | T |
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need | H2 |
For habit told when all things should proceed | H2 |
Few their amusements but when friends appear'd | D2 |
They with the world's distress their spirits | T |
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cheer'd | D2 |
The nation's guilt that would not long endure | I2 |
The reign of men so modest and so pure | I2 |
Their town was large and seldom pass'd a day | J2 |
But some had fail'd and others gone astray | J2 |
Clerks had absconded wives eloped girls flown | E |
To Gretna Green or sons rebellious grown | E |
Quarrels and fires arose and it was plain | X |
The times were bad the Saints had ceased to reign | X |
A few yet lived to languish and to mourn | Y |
For good old manners never to return | K2 |
Jonas had sisters and of these was one | L2 |
Who lost a husband and an only son | L2 |
Twelve months her sables she in sorrow wore | F2 |
And mourn'd so long that she could mourn no more | F2 |
Distant from Jonas and from all her race | T |
She now resided in a lively place | T |
There by the sect unseen at whist she play'd | B2 |
Nor was of churchman or their church afraid | B2 |
If much of this the graver brother heard | M2 |
He something censured but he little fear'd | D2 |
He knew her rich and frugal for the rest | N2 |
He felt no care or if he felt suppress'd | N2 |
Nor for companion when she ask'd her Niece | T |
Had he suspicions that disturb'd his peace | T |
Frugal and rich these virtues as a charm | O2 |
Preserved the thoughtful man from all alarm | O2 |
An infant yet she soon would home return | K2 |
Nor stay the manners of the world to learn | K2 |
Meantime his boys would all his care engross | T |
And be his comforts if he felt the loss | T |
The sprightly Sybil pleased and unconfined | P |
Felt the pure pleasure of the op'ning mind | P |
All here was gay and cheerful all at home | P2 |
Unvaried quiet and unruffled gloom | A2 |
There were no changes and amusements few | U |
Here all was varied wonderful and new | U |
There were plain meals plain dresses and grave | G2 |
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looks | T |
Here gay companions and amusing books | T |
And the young Beauty soon began to taste | Q2 |
The light vocations of the scene she graced | Q2 |
A man of business feels it as a crime | M |
On calls domestic to consume his time | M |
Yet this grave man had not so cold a heart | R2 |
But with his daughter he was grieved to part | R2 |
And he demanded that in every year | S2 |
The Aunt and Niece should at his house appear | S2 |
'Yes we must go my child and by our dress | T |
A grave conformity of mind express | T |
Must sing at meeting and from cards refrain | X |
The more t'enjoy when we return again ' | - |
Thus spake the Aunt and the discerning child | J |
Was pleased to learn how fathers are beguiled | J |
Her artful part the young dissembler took | T2 |
And from the matron caught th' approving look | T2 |
When thrice the friends had met excuse was sent | U2 |
For more delay and Jonas was content | U2 |
Till a tall maiden by her sire was seen | V2 |
In all the bloom and beauty of sixteen | V2 |
He gazed admiring she with visage prim | W2 |
Glanced an arch look of gravity on him | W2 |
For she was gay at heart but wore disguise | T |
And stood a vestal in her father's eyes | T |
Pure pensive simple sad the damsel's heart | R2 |
When Jonas praised reproved her for the part | R2 |
For Sybil fond of pleasure gay and light | X2 |
Had still a secret bias to the right | X2 |
Vain as she was and flattery made her vain | X |
Her simulation gave her bosom pain | X |
Again return'd the Matron and the Niece | T |
Found the late quiet gave their joy increase | T |
The aunt infirm no more her visits paid | B2 |
But still with her sojourn'd the favourite maid | B2 |
Letters were sent when franks could be procured | Y2 |
And when they could not silence was endured | Y2 |
All were in health and if they older grew | U |
It seem'd a fact that none among them knew | U |
The aunt and niece still led a pleasant life | Z2 |
And quiet days had Jonas and his wife | Z2 |
Near him a Widow dwelt of worthy fame | A3 |
Like his her manners and her creed the same | A3 |
The wealth her husband left her care retain'd | B3 |
For one tall Youth and widow she remain'd | B3 |
His love respectful all her care repaid | B2 |
Her wishes watch'd and her commands obey'd | B2 |
Sober he was and grave from early youth | C3 |
Mindful of forms but more intent on truth | C3 |
In a light drab he uniformly dress'd | N2 |
And look serene th' unruffled mind express'd | N2 |
A hat with ample verge his brows o'erspread | N2 |
And his brown locks curl'd graceful on his head | N2 |
Yet might observers in his speaking eye | D |
Some observation some acuteness spy | D |
The friendly thought it keen the treacherous | T |
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deem'd it sly | D |
Yet not a crime could foe or friend detect | N2 |
His actions all were like his speech correct | N2 |
And they who jested on a mind so sound | N2 |
Upon his virtues must their laughter found | N2 |
Chaste sober solemn and devout they named | N2 |
Him who was thus and not of this ashamed | N2 |
Such were the virtues Jonas found in one | L2 |
In whom he warmly wish'd to find a son | L2 |
Three years had pass'd since he had Sybil seen | V2 |
But she was doubtless what she once had been | D3 |
Lovely and mild obedient and discreet | N2 |
The pair must love whenever they should meet | N2 |
Then ere the widow or her son should choose | T |
Some happier maid he would explain his views | T |
Now she like him was politic and shrewd | N2 |
George Crabbe
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