Shorten Sail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH HIHI IJIJ| Love thy country wish it well | A |
| Not with too intense a care | B |
| 'Tis enough that when it fell | A |
| Thou its ruin didst not share | B |
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| Envy's censure Flattery's praise | C |
| With unmoved indifference view | D |
| Learn to tread Life's dangerous maze | C |
| With unerring Virtue's clue | D |
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| Void of strong desire and fear | E |
| Life's wide ocean trust no more | F |
| Strive thy little bark to steer | E |
| With the tide but near the shore | F |
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| Thus prepared thy shorten'd sail | G |
| Shall whene'er the winds increase | H |
| Seizing each propitious gale | G |
| Waft thee to the port of Peace | H |
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| Keep thy conscience from offence | H |
| And tempestuous passions free | I |
| So when thou art call'd from hence | H |
| Easy shall thy passage be | I |
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| Easy shall thy passage be | I |
| Cheerful thy allotted stay | J |
| Short the account 'twixt God and thee | I |
| Hope shall meet thee on thy way | J |
Lord Melcombe, George Bubb Dodington
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