On Leaving Bath. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEFF GGHHAAIIGG JJKKLL MMFFNNMMOO| The Britons in their Nature shy | A |
| View Strangers with a distant Eye | A |
| We think them partial and severe | B |
| And judge their Manners by their Air | C |
| Are undeceiv'd by Time alone | D |
| Their Value rises as they're known | D |
| - | |
| Here many a worthy Mind I found | E |
| With Sense and Taste by Virtue crown'd | E |
| At once so truly good and great | F |
| They knew to bear a prosp'rous State | F |
| - | |
| Few take from noble Blood Pretence | G |
| To act or look with Insolence | G |
| Veins with the richest Purple dy'd | H |
| But seldom swell the Heart with Pride | H |
| So tho' the River Gods from high | A |
| With plenteous Urns the Streams supply | A |
| Which still enlarge as they descend | I |
| Roll down and in the Ocean end | I |
| Thro' Ages pour'd yet to our Eyes | G |
| Old Ocean is too great to rise | G |
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| The gen'rous Treatment I have met | J |
| Hath run me deep in Albion's Debt | J |
| And could my artless Lines impart | K |
| The grateful Dictates of my Heart | K |
| Latest Posterity should know | L |
| The Sense I have of what I owe | L |
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| Dear Bath a long a last Adieu | M |
| Since I no more shall visit you | M |
| Nor fix'd by Choice but barr'd by Fate | F |
| From a Felicity so great | F |
| O may thy Waters ever be | N |
| Healthful to others as to me | N |
| Had Ovid with prophetic View | M |
| Beheld the Wonders wrought by you | M |
| Medea's Arts he might have spar'd | O |
| And Life by thee alone repair'd | O |
Mary Barber
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