On Seeing An Officer's Widow Distracted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFAAGGHH IJKKHHLL HHMMNN| O wretch hath Madness cur'd thy dire Despair | A |
| Yes All thy Sorrows now are light as Air | A |
| No more you mourn your once lov'd Husband's Fate | B |
| Who bravely perish'd for a thankless State | B |
| For rolling Years thy Piety prevail'd | C |
| At length quite sunk thy Hope thy Patience fail'd | C |
| Distracted now you tread on Life's last Stage | D |
| Nor feel the Weight of Poverty and Age | D |
| How blest in this compar'd with those whose Lot | E |
| Dooms them to Miseries by you forgot | E |
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| Now wild as Winds you from your Off spring fly | F |
| Or fright them from you with distracted Eye | F |
| Rove thro' the Streets or sing devoid of Care | A |
| With ratter'd Garments and dishevell'd Hair | A |
| By hooting Boys to higher Phrenzy fir'd | G |
| At length you fink by cruel Treatment tir'd | G |
| Sink into Sleep an Emblem of the Dead | H |
| A Stone thy Pillow the cold Earth thy Bed | H |
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| O tell it not let none the Story hear | I |
| Lest Britain's Martial Sons should learn to fear | J |
| And when they next the hostile Wall attack | K |
| Feel the Heart fail the lifted Arm grow slack | K |
| And pausing cry Tho' Death we scorn to dread | H |
| Our Orphan Off spring must they pine for Bread | H |
| See their lov'd Mothers into Prisons thrown | L |
| And unreliev'd in iron Bondage groan | L |
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| BRITAIN for this impending Ruin dread | H |
| Their Woes call loud for Vengeance on thy Head | H |
| Nor wonder if Disasters wait your Fleets | M |
| Nor wonder at Complainings in your Streets | M |
| Be timely wise arrest th' uplifted Hand | N |
| Ere Pestilence or Famine sweep the Land | N |
Mary Barber
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