A Poem To His Magesty, Presented To The Lord Keeper. To The Right Hon. Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHIJJDDJJ DDKKJJJ| If yet your thoughts are loose from state affairs | A |
| Nor feel the burden of a kingdom's cares | A |
| If yet your time and actions are your own | B |
| Receive the present of a Muse unknown | B |
| A Must that in adventurous numbers sings | C |
| The rout of armies a nd the fall of Kings | C |
| Britain advanc'd and Europe's peace restor'd | D |
| By Somers' counsels and by Nassau's sword | D |
| To you my Lord these daring thoughts belong | E |
| Who help'd to raise the subject of my song | E |
| To you the hero of my verse reveals | F |
| His great designs to you in council tells | G |
| His inmost thoughts determining the doom | H |
| Of towns unstorm'd and battles yet to come | I |
| And well could you in your immortal strains | J |
| Describe His conduct and reward his pains | J |
| But since the state has all your cares ingross'd | D |
| And poetry in higher thoughts is lost | D |
| Attend to what a lesser Muse indites | J |
| Pardon her faults and countenance her flights | J |
| On you my Lord with anxious fear I wait | D |
| And from your judgment must expect my fate | D |
| Who free from vulgar passions are above | K |
| Degrading envy or misguided love | K |
| If you well pleas'd shall smile upon my lays | J |
| Secure of fame my voice I'll boldly raise | J |
| For next to what you write is what you praise | J |
Joseph Addison
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