On The Use Of Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEFGE HHIJJIKKLMMNOOBHHB PPQRRQSSTUVT| Not for themselves did human kind | A |
| Contrive the parts by heaven assign'd | A |
| On life's wide scene to play | B |
| Not Scipio's force nor C sar's skill | C |
| Can conquer glory's arduous hill | C |
| If fortune close the way | B |
| Yet still the self depending soul | D |
| Though last and least in fortune's roll | D |
| His proper sphere commands | E |
| And knows what nature's seal bestow'd | F |
| And sees before the throne of God | G |
| The rank in which he stands | E |
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| Who train'd by laws the future age | H |
| Who rescu'd nations from the rage | H |
| Of partial factious power | I |
| My heart with distant homage views | J |
| Content if thou celestial Muse | J |
| Did'st rule my natal hour | I |
| Nor far beneath the hero's feet | K |
| Nor from the legislator's seat | K |
| Stands far remote the bard | L |
| Though not with public terrors crown'd | M |
| Yet wider shall his rule be found | M |
| More lasting his award | N |
| Lycurgus fashion'd Sparta's fame | O |
| And Pompey to the Roman name | O |
| Gave universal sway | B |
| Where are they Homer's reverend page | H |
| Holds empire to the thirtieth age | H |
| And tongues and climes obey | B |
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| And thus when William's acts divine | P |
| No longer shall from Bourbon's line | P |
| Draw one vindictive vow | Q |
| When Sidney shall with Cato rest | R |
| And Russel move the patriot's breast | R |
| No more than Brutus now | Q |
| Yet then shall Shakespeare's powerful art | S |
| O'er every passion every heart | S |
| Confirm his awful throne | T |
| Tyrants shall bow before his laws | U |
| And freedom's glory's virtue's cause | V |
| Their dread assertor own | T |
Mark Akenside
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