Content Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CCCC CDCD EFEF GCGC HCICIn some lone hamlet it were better far | A |
To live unknown amid Contentment's isle | B |
Than court the bauble of an air blown star | A |
Or barter honour for a prince's smile | B |
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Hail tranquil brow'd Content forth sylvan god | C |
Who lov'st to sit beside some cottage fire | D |
Where the brown presence of the blazing clod | C |
Regales the aspect of the aged sire | D |
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There when the Winter's children bleak and cold | C |
Are through December's gloomy regions led | C |
The church yard tale of sheeted ghost is told | C |
While fix'd attention dares not turn its head | C |
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Or if the tale of ghost or pigmy sprite | C |
Is stripp'd by theme more cheerful of its power | D |
The song employs the early dim of night | C |
Till village curfew counts a later hour | D |
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And oft the welcome neighbour loves to stop | E |
To tell the market news to laugh and sing | F |
O'er the loved circling jug whose old brown top | E |
Is wet with kisses from the florid ring | F |
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There whilst the cricket chirps its chimney song | G |
Within some crumbling chink with moss embrown'd | C |
The lighted stick diverts the infant throng | G |
And fans are waved and ribbands twirl'd around | C |
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Entwine for me the wreath of rural mirth | H |
And blast the murm'ring fiend from chaos sent | C |
Then while the house dog snores upon the hearth | I |
I'll sit and hail thy sacred name CONTENT | C |
Thomas Gent
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