Hymn To Adversity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IJKLHHMM NONOPPQR STUTVVIW RXRXYZA2A2| Daughter of Jove relentless Power | A |
| Thou tamer of the human breast | B |
| Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour | A |
| The Bad affright afflict the Best | B |
| Bound in thy adamantine chain | C |
| The Proud are taught to taste of pain | C |
| And purple Tyrants vainly groan | D |
| With pangs unfelt before unpitied and alone | D |
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| When first thy Sire to send on earth | E |
| Virtue his darling child designed | F |
| To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth | E |
| And bade to form her infant mind | F |
| Stern rugged Nurse thy rigid lore | G |
| With patience many a year she bore | G |
| What sorrow was thou bad'st her know | H |
| And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe | H |
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| Scared at thy frown terrific fly | I |
| Self pleasing Folly's idle brood | J |
| Wild Laughter Noise and thoughtless Joy | K |
| And leave us leisure to be good | L |
| Light they disperse and with them go | H |
| The summer Friend the flatt'ring Foe | H |
| By vain Prosperity received | M |
| To her they vow their truth and are again believed | M |
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| Wisdom in sable garb arrayed | N |
| Immersed in rapt'rous thought profound | O |
| And Melancholy silent maid | N |
| With leaden eye that loves the ground | O |
| Still on thy solemn steps attend | P |
| Warm Charity the gen'ral Friend | P |
| With Justice to herself severe | Q |
| And Pity dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear | R |
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| Oh gently on thy Suppliant's head | S |
| Dread Goddess lay thy chast'ning hand | T |
| Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad | U |
| Not circled with the vengeful Band | T |
| As by the Impious thou art seen | V |
| With thund'ring voice and threat'ning mien | V |
| With screaming Horror's funeral cry | I |
| Despair and fell Disease and ghastly Poverty | W |
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| Thy form benign O Goddess wear | R |
| Thy milder influence impart | X |
| Thy philosophic Train be there | R |
| To soften not to wound my heart | X |
| The gen'rous spark extinct revive | Y |
| Teach me to love and to forgive | Z |
| Exact my own defects to scan | A2 |
| What others are to feel and know myself a Man | A2 |
Thomas Gray
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