To The Honourable Admiral Lord Radstock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF GBGBHIJI| 'Tis sweet to recollect life's past controls | A |
| And turn to days of sorrow when they're bye | B |
| And think of gentle friends and feeling souls | A |
| That offered shelter when the storm was high | B |
| It thrills one's heart As mariners have turn'd | C |
| When 'scap'd from shipwreck 'mid the billows' roar | D |
| To look on fragments that the tempest spurn'd | C |
| On which they clung and struggled to the shore | D |
| So sweet it is to turn And hour by hour | E |
| Reflection muses on the good and great | F |
| That lent a portion of their wealthy power | E |
| And sav'd a wormling from destruction's fate | F |
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| Oft to the patron of her first essays | G |
| The rural muse O Radstock turns her eye | B |
| Not with the fulsome noise of fawning praise | G |
| But soul's deep gushings in a silent sigh | B |
| As drooping blossoms dwindling deep in shade | H |
| Should e'er a sunbeam to their lot be given | I |
| Perk up in hopeful bloom their feeble head | J |
| And seemly offer silent thanks to heaven | I |
John Clare
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