Lines On The Death Of Mr. Perceval Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGHG IJKJ| In the dirge we sung o'er him no censure was heard | A |
| Unembittered and free did the tear drop descend | B |
| We forgot in that hour how the statesman had erred | C |
| And wept for the husband the father and friend | B |
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| Oh proud was the meed his integrity won | D |
| And generous indeed were the tears that we shed | E |
| When in grief we forgot all the ill he had done | D |
| And tho' wronged by him living bewailed him when dead | E |
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| Even now if one harsher emotion intrude | F |
| 'Tis to wish he had chosen some lowlier state | G |
| Had known what he was and content to be good | H |
| Had ne'er for our ruin aspired to be great | G |
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| So left thro' their own little orbit to move | I |
| His years might have rolled inoffensive away | J |
| His children might still have been blest with his love | K |
| And England would ne'er have been curst with his sway | J |
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