Written For My Son, To Mr. Barry; Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEEFFGG HHHH| Since Phoebus makes your Verse divine | A |
| Since the God glows in ev'ry Line | A |
| Why should you think but I with Ease | B |
| Might write my native artless Lays | C |
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| My Mother told me many a Time | D |
| That Double dealing was a Crime | D |
| Alas and is it only so | E |
| In us whose Birth and Fortune's low | E |
| For you tho' nobly born descend | F |
| To injure yet appear a Friend | F |
| And seem to make my Praise your Aim | G |
| With more Success to wound my Fame | G |
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| So your Apollo's Priests of old | H |
| As by his Poets we are told | H |
| With glorious Wreaths the Victim drest | H |
| Then plung'd the Poniard in his Breast | H |
Mary Barber
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