To A Friend, Written At A Very Early Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGEHHDDII AAJJDDKKLAEEMMNNAAAA| I've read my friend of Dioclesian | A |
| And many another noble Grecian | A |
| Who wealth and palaces resigned | B |
| In cots the joys of peace to find | B |
| Maximian's meal of turnip tops | C |
| Disgusting food to dainty chops | C |
| I've also read of without wonder | D |
| But such a cursed egregious blunder | D |
| As that a man of wit and sense | E |
| Should leave his books to hoard up pence | E |
| Forsake the loved Aonian maids | F |
| For all the petty tricks of trades | F |
| I never either now or long since | G |
| Have heard of such a peace of nonsense | E |
| That one who learning's joys hath felt | H |
| And at the Muse's altar knelt | H |
| Should leave a life of sacred leisure | D |
| To taste the accumulating pleasure | D |
| And metamorphosed to an alley duck | I |
| Grovel in loads of kindred muck | I |
| Oh 't is beyond my comprehension | A |
| A courtier throwing up his pension | A |
| A lawyer working without a fee | J |
| A parson giving charity | J |
| A truly pious methodist preacher | D |
| Are not egad so out of nature | D |
| Had nature made thee half a fool | K |
| But given thee wit to keep a school | K |
| I had not stared at thy backsliding | L |
| But when thy wit I can confide in | A |
| When well I know thy just pretence | E |
| To solid and exalted sense | E |
| When well I know that on thy head | M |
| Philosophy her lights hath shed | M |
| I stand aghast thy virtues sum to | N |
| I wonder what this world will come to | N |
| Yet whence this strain shall I repine | A |
| That thou alone dost singly shine | A |
| Shall I lament that thou alone | A |
| Of men of parts hast prudence known | A |
Henry Kirk White
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