Apostate Will Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHGGGG IIJJKLMMNNOOGGAAPPQQ EEJJQQNNGGGGRR| In days of old when Wesley's power | A |
| Gathered new strength by every hour | A |
| Apostate Will just sunk in trade | B |
| Resolved his bargain should be made | B |
| Then strait to Wesley he repairs | C |
| And puts on grave and solemn airs | C |
| Then thus the pious man addressed | D |
| Good sir I think your doctrine best | D |
| Your servant will a Wesley be | E |
| Therefore the principles teach me | E |
| The preacher then instructions gave | F |
| How he in this world should behave | F |
| He hears assents and gives a nod | G |
| Says every word's the word of God | G |
| Then lifting his dissembling eyes | H |
| How blessed is the sect he cries | H |
| Nor Bingham Young nor Stillingfleet | G |
| Shall make me from this sect retreat | G |
| He then his circumstances declared | G |
| How hardly with him matters fared | G |
| Begg'd him next morning for to make | I |
| A small collection for his sake | I |
| The preacher said Do not repine | J |
| The whole collection shall be thine | J |
| With looks demure and cringing bows | K |
| About his business strait he goes | L |
| His outward acts were grave and prim | M |
| The methodist appear'd in him | M |
| But be his outward what it will | N |
| His heart was an apostate's still | N |
| He'd oft profess an hallow'd flame | O |
| And every where preach'd Wesley's name | O |
| He was a preacher and what not | G |
| As long as money could be got | G |
| He'd oft profess with holy fire | A |
| The labourer's worthy of his hire | A |
| It happen'd once upon a time | P |
| When all his works were in their prime | P |
| A noble place appear'd in view | Q |
| Then to the methodists adieu | Q |
| A methodist no more he'll be | E |
| The protestants serve best for he | E |
| Then to the curate strait he ran | J |
| And thus address'd the rev'rend man | J |
| I was a methodist tis true | Q |
| With penitence I turn to you | Q |
| O that it were your bounteous will | N |
| That I the vacant place might fill | N |
| With justice I'd myself acquit | G |
| Do every thing that's right and fit | G |
| The curate straitway gave consent | G |
| To take the place he quickly went | G |
| Accordingly he took the place | R |
| And keeps it with dissembled grace | R |
Thomas Chatterton
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