In The Beginning Of Robe's Geography. Written At Paris, 1700. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEEFFGHIIIIJJKL MMNN MMOOPN QQRRSII| Of all that William rules or robe | A |
| Describes great Rhea of thy globe | A |
| When or on posthorse or in chaise | B |
| With much expense and little ease | C |
| My destin'd miles I shall have gone | D |
| By Thames or Maese by Po or Rhone | E |
| And found no foot of earth my own | E |
| Great Mother let me once be able | F |
| To have a garden house and stable | F |
| That I may read and ride and plant | G |
| Superior to desire or want | H |
| And as health fails and years increase | I |
| Sit down and think and die in peace | I |
| Oblige thy favourite undertakers | I |
| To throw me in but twenty acres | I |
| This number sure they may allow | J |
| For pasture ten and ten for plough | J |
| 'Tis all that I would wish or hope | K |
| For me and John and Nell and Crop | L |
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| Then as thou wilt dispose the rest | M |
| And let not Fortune spoil the jest | M |
| To those who at the market rate | N |
| Can barter honour for estate | N |
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| Now if thou grant'st me my request | M |
| To make thy vot'ry truly bless'd | M |
| Let curs'd revenge and saucy pride | O |
| To some bleak rock far off be tied | O |
| Nor e'er approach my rural seat | P |
| To tempt me to be base and great | N |
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| And Goddess this kind office done | Q |
| Charge Venus to command her son | Q |
| Wherever else she lets him rove | R |
| To shun my house and field and grove | R |
| Peace cannot dwell with Hate or Love | S |
| Hear gracious Rhea what I say | I |
| And thy petitioner shall pray | I |
Matthew Prior
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