Vignettes 14: To Mr And Mrs Everard, On Their Only Son's Being In The Navy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK| Talent and beauty and the heart's warm glow | A |
| Gilding with Heavenly light his path below | A |
| Few with such rare felicity have won | B |
| In that rich prize a dear and only son | B |
| And fewer but those faculties would doom | C |
| To the soft prison of a pamper'd home | D |
| Check his bold wishes when they soar'd on high | E |
| And see well pleas'd each early vision die | E |
| But ye enweaving as to me appears | F |
| With his bright hopes those of maturer years | F |
| Hallowing the web with all that parents feel | G |
| The saintly trust in Heav'n the patriot's zeal | G |
| The aching doubts that still tenacious wind | H |
| Around the lofty and the tender mind | H |
| Ye with a more than Roman virtue yield | I |
| To the proud strife of Albion's liquid field | I |
| This darling and in whispers bid him wear | J |
| The finest wreath that buds and blossoms there | J |
| And I could almost say I heard a strain | K |
| Pronounce the sacrifice should not be vain | K |
Matilda Betham
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