The Persian, The Sun, And The Cloud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DD EFGH II JJKK LLGH MMNN| Lives there a bard for genius famed | A |
| Whom Envy's tongue hath not declaimed | A |
| Her hissing snakes proclaim her spite | B |
| She summons up the fiends of night | B |
| Hatred and malice by her stand | C |
| And prompt to do what she command | C |
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| As prostrate to the orb of day | D |
| A Persian invocating lay | D |
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| Parent of light whose rays dispense | E |
| The various gifts of Providence | F |
| Accept our praise accept our prayer | G |
| Smile on our fields and bless our year | H |
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| A cloud passed by a voice aloud | I |
| Like Envy's issued from that cloud | I |
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| I can eclipse your gaudy orb | J |
| And every ray you ask absorb | J |
| Pray then to me where praise is due | K |
| And I will grant the rays to you | K |
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| The Persian answered in his wrath | L |
| He raised thee to that airy path | L |
| A passing wind or puff of air | G |
| Will hurl thee to thy proper sphere | H |
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| The gale arose the cloud was doomed | M |
| The golden orb his reign resumed | M |
| And as the sun above so worth | N |
| Scatters the clouds of sons of earth | N |
John Gay
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