Ode To Adversity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEE FGFGHHII JKLMIINN OPOPQQRS TUVUWWJX SYSYZA2B2B2| Daughter of Heav'n relentless pow'r | A |
| Thou tamer of the human breast | B |
| Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour | C |
| The bad affright afflict the best | B |
| Bound in thy adamantine chain | D |
| The proud are taught to taste of pain | D |
| And purple tyrants vainly groan | E |
| With pangs unfelt before unpitied and alone | E |
| - | |
| When first thy sire to send on earth | F |
| Virtue his darling child design'd | G |
| To thee he gave the heavn'ly birth | F |
| And bade to form her infant mind | G |
| Stern rugged nurse thy rigid lore | H |
| With patience many a year she bore | H |
| What sorrow was thou bad'st her know | I |
| And from her she learn'd to melt at others' wo | I |
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| Scar'd at thy frown terrific fly | J |
| Self pleasing folly's idle brood | K |
| Wild laughter noise and thoughtless joy | L |
| And leave us leisure to be good | M |
| Light they disperse and with them go | I |
| The summer friend the flatt'ring foe | I |
| By vain prosperity receiv'd | N |
| To her they vow their truth and are again believ'd | N |
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| Wisdom in sable garb array'd | O |
| Immers'd in rapt'rous thought profound | P |
| And melancholy silent maid | O |
| With leaden eye that loves the ground | P |
| Still on thy solemn steps attend | Q |
| Warm charity the gen'ral friend | Q |
| With justice to herself severe | R |
| And pity dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear | S |
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| Oh gently on the suppliant's head | T |
| Dread pow'r lay thy chast'ning hand | U |
| Not in thy gorgon terrors clad | V |
| Nor circled with the vengeful band | U |
| As by the impious thou art seen | W |
| With thund'ring voice and threat'ning mien | W |
| With screaming horror's fun'ral cry | J |
| Despair and fell disease and ghastly poverty | X |
| - | |
| Thy form benign propitious wear | S |
| Thy milder influence impart | Y |
| Thy philosophic train be there | S |
| To soften not to wound my heart | Y |
| The gen'rous spark extinct revive | Z |
| Teach me to love and to forgive | A2 |
| Exact my own defects to scan | B2 |
| What others are to feel and know myself a man | B2 |
John Gay
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