An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAAAACCDDEEFFGGHH| Did not my Muse what can she less | A |
| Perceive her own unworthiness | A |
| Could she by some well chosen theme | B |
| But hope to merit your esteem | B |
| She would not thus conceal her lays | A |
| Ambitious to deserve your praise | A |
| But should my Delia take offence | A |
| And frown on her impertinence | A |
| In silence sorrowing and forlorn | C |
| Would the despairing trifler mourn | C |
| Curse her ill tuned unpleasing lute | D |
| Then sigh and sit for ever mute | D |
| In secret therefore let her play | E |
| Squandering her idle notes away | E |
| In secret as she chants along | F |
| Cheerful and careless in her song | F |
| Nor heeds she whether harsh or clear | G |
| Free from each terror every fear | G |
| From that of all most dreaded free | H |
| The terror of offending thee | H |
William Cowper
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