On The Same (oure Ladies Chyrche) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACBDEDDDDDDDDFGHG HGHH| STAY curyous traveller and pass not bye | A |
| Until this fetive pile astounde thine eye | A |
| Whole rocks on rocks with yron joynd surveie | B |
| And okes with okes entremed disponed lie | A |
| This mightie pile that keeps the wyndes at baie | C |
| Fyre levyn and the mokie storme defie | B |
| That shootes aloofe into the reaulmes of daie | D |
| Shall be the record of the Buylders fame for aie | E |
| Thou seest this maystrie of a human hand | D |
| The pride of Brystowe and the Westerne lande | D |
| Yet is the Buylders vertues much moe greete | D |
| Greeter than can bie Rowlies pen be scande | D |
| Thou seest the saynctes and kynges in stonen state | D |
| That seemd with breath and human soule dispande | D |
| As payrde to us enseem these men of slate | D |
| Such is greete Canynge's mynde when payrd to God elate | D |
| Well maiest thou be astound but view it well | F |
| Go not from hence before thou see thy fill | G |
| And learn the Builder's vertues and his name | H |
| Of this tall spyre in every countye telle | G |
| And with thy tale the lazing rych men shame | H |
| Showe howe the glorious Canynge did excelle | G |
| How hee good man a friend for kynges became | H |
| And gloryous paved at once the way to heaven and fame | H |
Thomas Chatterton
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