Lines Written In A Cottage By The Sea-side Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHG IJIJ DKDK LCLC MEME AGAG| In which the Author had taken Shelter during a violent Storm Upon Seeing An Idiotic Youth Seated In The Chimney Corner Caressing A Broom | A |
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| 'Twas on a night of wildest storms | B |
| When loudly roar'd the raving main | C |
| When dark clouds shew'd their shapeless forms | B |
| And hail beat hard the cottage pane | C |
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| Tom Fool sat by the chimney side | D |
| With open mouth and staring eyes | E |
| A batter'd broom was all his pride | D |
| It was his wife his child his prize | E |
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| Alike to him if tempests howl | F |
| Or summer beam its sweetest day | G |
| For still is pleas'd the silly soul | H |
| And still he laughs the hours away | G |
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| Alas I could not stop the sigh | I |
| To see him thus so wildly stare | J |
| To mark in ruins Reason lie | I |
| Callous alike to joy and care | J |
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| God bless thee thoughtless soul I cried | D |
| Yet are thy wants but very few | K |
| The world's hard scenes thou ne'er hast tried | D |
| Its cares and crimes to thee are new | K |
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| The hoary hag A who cross'd thee so | L |
| Did not unkindly vex thy brain | C |
| Indeed she could not be thy foe | L |
| To snatch thee thus from grief and pain | C |
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| Deceit shall never wring thy heart | M |
| And baffled hope awake no sighs | E |
| And true love harshly forc'd to part | M |
| Shall never swell with tears thine eyes | E |
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| Then long enjoy thy batter'd broom | A |
| Poor merry fool and laugh away | G |
| 'Till Fate shall bid thy reason bloom | A |
| In blissful scenes of brighter day | G |
John Carr (sir)
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