The Methodist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK LLMM| Says Tom to Jack 'tis very odd | A |
| These representatives of God | A |
| In color way of life and evil | B |
| Should be so very like the devil | B |
| Jack understand was one of those | C |
| Who mould religion in the rose | C |
| A red hot methodist his face | D |
| Was full of puritanic grace | D |
| His loose lank hair his slow gradation | E |
| Declared a late regeneration | E |
| Among the daughters long renown'd | F |
| For standing upon holy ground | F |
| Never in carnal battle beat | G |
| Tho' sometimes forced to a retreat | G |
| But C t hero as he is | H |
| Knight of incomparable phiz | H |
| When pliant Doxy seems to yield | I |
| Courageously forsakes the field | I |
| Jack or to write more gravely John | J |
| Thro' hills of Wesley's works had gone | K |
| Could sing one hundred hymns by rote | L |
| Hymns which would sanctify the throat | L |
| But some indeed composed so oddly | M |
| You'd swear 'twas bawdy songs made godly | M |
Thomas Chatterton
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