A Letter Written For My Son To A Young Gentleman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHEEFF IIJJKKLMMNN OPPEEQQIIRR STUUVV| Dear Jack whilst you thro' Flanders roam | A |
| Can you forget your Friends at Home | A |
| Say will your Tutors give you Time | B |
| To write to Hereticks in Rhyme | B |
| A Name they brand us with dear Youth | C |
| And we affirm they injure Truth | C |
| The sacred Page before us lies | D |
| Which you lock up from vulgar Eyes | D |
| In vain to Men a Light is giv'n | E |
| To point them out the Path to Heav'n | E |
| If lest their Sight should make them stray | F |
| Their Guides alone must see the Way | F |
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| I fancy now you answer thus | G |
| Lord what's Divinity to us | G |
| This serious Subject is unfit | H |
| To exercise a School boy's Wit | H |
| Then talk of other Matters Con | E |
| Inform me how your Class goes on | E |
| Are you poor Boys at School To day | F |
| Whilst others are allow'd to play | F |
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| Dear Jack that is our Case 'tls true | I |
| We envy them and envy you | I |
| You who may ramble from your Book | J |
| To view the Towns Eugenio took | J |
| Ev'n now perhaps attend the Story | K |
| How Marlbro' won immortal Glory | K |
| page | L |
| Whilst he who tells the wondrous Tale | M |
| At ev'ry Period turning pale | M |
| Still fancies Vengeance o'er his Head | N |
| And asks you Are you sure He's dead | N |
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| P S | O |
| I just heard happy News dear Boy | P |
| And Friendship bids me share the Joy | P |
| Hibernia has not pray'd in vain | E |
| Cyrus will visit her again | E |
| Cyrus long train'd in Wisdom's School | Q |
| And by Mandana form'd for Rule | Q |
| Ramsay we find from whence you drew | I |
| Those Characters admir'd in you | I |
| We Cassendana's Virtues trace | R |
| And lovely Form in Weymouth's Race | R |
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| O would Mandana cross the Seas | S |
| And hear a People speak her Praise | T |
| With Britain vie to hail the Dame | U |
| Who Granville could exalt thy Name | U |
| Transmitting down thy Fame with Care | V |
| And double Lustre in her Heir | V |
Mary Barber
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