On A Spirited Portrait In My Album, Of A Favorite Deer-hound, Belonging To Sir Walter Scott, By My F Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDD EEFGGFHH| Who in this sketchey wonder does not trace | A |
| The fire the spirit and the living grace | A |
| That mark the hand of genius and of taste | B |
| Who does not recognize in such a head | C |
| Truth vigilance fidelity inbred | C |
| Sagacity that's human and a waste | B |
| Of those high qualities and virtues rare | D |
| Which poor humanity has not to spare | D |
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| Then faithful Hound thy happy lot is cast | E |
| In pleasant places and thy life has pass'd | E |
| In the dear service of a Master whom | F |
| The world's concurrent voice has yielded now | G |
| The meed of highest praise and on whose brow | G |
| Th' imperishable wreath of fame shall bloom | F |
| Nor is this fate less happy than the rest | H |
| That he should paint thee who can paint thee best | H |
Thomas Gent
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