To The Same Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHAAIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPQRRSSTTUU VVWWXXYYTTAAZZA2A2B2 B2C2C2D2D2E2IEETTF2G 2| Though old in ill the traitor sure should find | A |
| Some secret sting transfix his guilty mind | A |
| Though bribes or favour may protect his fame | B |
| Or fear restrain invectives on his name | B |
| None 'quits himself his own impartial thought | C |
| Condemns and conscience shall record the fault | D |
| Yet more my friend your happy state may bear | E |
| This disappointment as below your care | E |
| For what you have return to Heav'n your thanks | F |
| Few share the prizes many draw the blanks | F |
| Of breach of promise loudly you complain | G |
| Have you then known the world so long in vain | G |
| Worse than the iron age our impious times | H |
| Have learn'd to laugh at most flagitious crimes | H |
| Are you to know that 'tis a jest to find | A |
| Unthinking honesty pervade the mind | A |
| At best they say the man is strangely odd | I |
| Who keeps his oath and can believe a God | I |
| This was the cant when Edward held the throne | J |
| Before Spinoza wrote or Hobbes was known | J |
| When the gilt Bible was the king's delight | K |
| When prayer preceded day and hymns the night | K |
| Now softening eunuchs sing Italian airs | L |
| The dancing dame to midnight ball repairs | L |
| Now if an honest man like you I view | M |
| Contemning interest and to virtue true | M |
| I deem he deviates from Nature's rules | N |
| Like burning hills or petrifying pools | N |
| I stand astonish'd at the strange portent | O |
| And think some revolution the event | O |
| As all grave heads were startled as they heard | P |
| That a new comet in the west appear'd | Q |
| When from a human mother rabbits sprung | R |
| And Ward his pills like hand grenadoes flung | R |
| When gratis scattering cures amidst the crowd | S |
| A miracle as Charteris swears aloud | S |
| A greater miracle I daily see | T |
| The ancient faith of Pius reign in thee | T |
| Observe the wretch who has that faith forsook | U |
| How clear his voice and how assur'd his look | U |
| Like innocence and as serenely bold | V |
| Conscious protection of almighty gold | V |
| While thus he reasons to relieve his fears | W |
| Oft I've deceiv'd yet still have kept my ears | W |
| I have been threat'ned for a broken vow | X |
| And yet successively have laugh'd till now | X |
| And will laugh on my fortune's not the worse | Y |
| When starving cullies rail or vainly curse | Y |
| Shall then the villain 'scape such knaves as he | T |
| Be rich and safe and from all vengeance free | T |
| Consider friend but coolly and you'll find | A |
| Revenge the frailty of a feeble mind | A |
| Nor think he 'scapes though he should never feel | Z |
| The pangs of poison or the force of steel | Z |
| There is a time when conscience shakes the soul | A2 |
| When Toland's tenets cannot fear control | A2 |
| When secret anguish fills the anxious breast | B2 |
| Vacant from business nor compos'd by rest | B2 |
| Then dreams invade the injur'd gods appear | C2 |
| All arm'd with thunder and awake his fear | C2 |
| The wretch will start at every flash that flies | D2 |
| Grow pale at the first murmur of the skies | D2 |
| Then if a fever fires corrupted blood | E2 |
| In every fit he feels the hand of God | I |
| Trembling and sunk into the last despair | E |
| He dares not offer one repenting prayer | E |
| For how can hope with desperate guilt agree | T |
| And the worst beast is worthier life than he | T |
| This at the best will be his certain fate | F2 |
| Or Heav'n may sooner think his crimes complete | G2 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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