Epistle To The Rev J'' B'', Whilst Journeying For The Recovery Of His Health Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAABCB DDDEDE FFFGFG AACHAI JJJKJK LLLMLM NNNONO PPPFPF QQRSQS TTTUTU VVVDVD WWWXWX SSSYSY ZZZA2ZA2 B2B2B2C2B2C2 IIID2ID2 E2F2E2G2F2G2 ZZZB2ZB2 H2H2H2I2H2I2 ZZZJ2ZK2 SSSL2SL2 M2M2M2N2M2N2 M2M2M2F2M2F2 ZZZMZM L2L2L2O2L2O2 M2M2M2P2M2P2 QQQM2RM2 M2M2M2Q2M2Q2 M2M2M2R2M2R2

When warm'd with zeal my rustic MuseA
Feels fluttering fain to tell her newsA
And paint her simple lowly viewsA
With all her artB
And though in genius but obtuseC
May touch the heartB
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Of palaces and courts of kingsD
She thinks but little never singsD
But wildly strikes her uncouth stringsD
In some pool cotE
Spreads o'er the poor hen fostering wingsD
And soothes their lotE
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Well pleased is she to see them smileF
And uses every honest wileF
To mend then hearts their cares beguileF
With rhyming storyG
And lend them to then God the whileF
And endless gloryG
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Perchance my poor neglected MuseA
Unfit to harass or amuseA
Escaping praise and loud abuseC
Unheard unknownH
May feed the moths and wasting dewsA
As some have doneI
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Her aims are good howe'er they endJ
Here comes a foe and there a friendJ
These point the dart and those defendJ
Whilst some deride herK
But God will sweetest comforts blendJ
Whate'er betide herK
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Thus heaven supported forth she goesL
Midst flatterers critics friends and foesL
Secure since He who all things knowsL
Approves her aimM
And kindly fans or fostering blowsL
Her sinking flameM
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Hence when she shows her honest faceN
And tells her tale with awkward graceN
Importunate to gain a placeN
Amongst your friendsO
To ruthless critics leave her caseN
And hail her endsO
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To all my heart is kind and trueP
But glows with ardent love for youP
Though absent still you rise in viewP
And talk and smileF
Whilst heavenly themes for ever newP
Our cares beguileF
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The happy seasons oft returnQ
When love our melting hearts did burnQ
As we through heavenly themes were borneR
With heavenward eyesS
And Faith this empty globe would spurnQ
And sail the skiesS
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Or when the rising sun shines brightT
Or setting leaves the world in nightT
Or dazzling sheds his noon day lightT
Or cloudy hidesU
My fancy in her airy flightT
With you residesU
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Where far you wander down the valeV
When balmy scents perfume the galeV
And purling rills and linnets hailV
The King of kingsD
To muse with you I never failV
On heavenly thingsD
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Where dashing cataracts astoundW
And foaming shake the neighbouring groundW
And spread a hoary mist aroundW
With you I gazeX
And think amid'st the deaf'ning soundW
On wisdom's waysX
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Where rocky mountains prop the skiesS
And round the smiling landscape liesS
Whilst you look down with tearful eyesS
On grovelling manY
My sympathetic fancy fliesS
The scene to scanY
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From Pisgah's top we then surveyZ
The blissful realms of endless dayZ
And all the short but narrow wayZ
That lies betweenA2
Whilst Faith emits a heavenly rayZ
And cheers the sceneA2
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With you I wander on the shoreB2
To hear the angry surges roarB2
Whilst foaming through the sands they pourB2
With constant rollC2
And meditations heavenward soarB2
And charm the soulC2
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On life's rough sea we're tempest drivenI
In crazy barks our canvas rivenI
Such is the lot to mortals givenI
Where sins resortD2
But he whose anchor's fixed in heavenI
Shall gain the portD2
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Though swelling waves oft beat him backE2
And tempests make him half a wreckF2
And passions strong with dangerous tackE2
Retard his courseG2
Yet Christ the pilot all will checkF2
And quell their forceG2
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So talk we as we thoughtful strayZ
Along the coast where dashing sprayZ
With rising mist o'erhangs the dayZ
And wets the shoreB2
And thick the vivid flashes playZ
And thunders roarB2
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Whilst passing o'er this giddy stageH2
A pious and a learned sageH2
Resolved eternal war to wageH2
With passions fellI2
How oft you view with holy rageH2
These imps of hellI2
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See with what madd'ning force they swayZ
The human breast and lead astrayZ
Down the steep broad destructive wayZ
The giddy throngJ2
Till grisly death sweeps all awayZ
The fiends amongK2
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As when the mad tornado fliesS
And sounding mingles earth and skiesS
And wild confusion 'fore the eyesS
In terrors dressedL2
So passions fell in whirlwinds riseS
And rend the breastL2
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But whilst this direful tempest ravesM2
And many barks are dashed to stavesM2
I see you tower above the wavesM2
Like some tall rockN2
Whose base the harmless ocean lavesM2
Without a shockN2
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'Tis He who calmed the raging seaM2
Who bids the waves be still in theeM2
And keeps you from all dangers freeM2
Amidst the wreckF2
All sin and care and dangers fleeM2
E'en at His beckF2
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And on that great and dreadful dayZ
When heaven and earth shall pass awayZ
Each soul to bliss He will conveyZ
That knows His nameM
And give the giddy world a preyZ
To quenchless flameM
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So oft when Sabbaths bade us restL2
And heavenly zeal inspired your breastL2
Obedient to the high behestL2
You preached to allO2
Whilst God your zealous efforts blessedL2
And owned your callO2
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The very thought my soul inspiresM2
And kindles bright her latent firesM2
My Muse feels heart warm fond desiresM2
And spreads her wingP2
And aims to join th' angelic choirsM2
And sweetly singP2
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May rosy Health with speed returnQ
And all your wonted ardour burnQ
And sickness buried in his urnQ
Sleep many yearsM2
So countless friends who loudly mournR
Shall dry their tearsM2
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Your wailing flock will all rejoiceM2
To hear their much loved shepherd's voiceM2
And long will bless the happy choiceM2
Their hearts have madeQ2
And tuneful mirth will swell the noiseM2
Through grove and gladeQ2
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Your dearer half will join with meM2
To celebrate the jubileeM2
And praise the Great Eternal ThreeM2
With throbbing joyR2
And taste those pleasures pure and freeM2
Which never cloyR2

Patrick Bronte



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