An Epigram From Homer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQORS TUVWCXYZOA2B2| Pay me my price potters and I will sing | A |
| Attend O Pallas and with lifted arm | B |
| Protect their oven let the cups and all | C |
| The sacred vessels black well and baked | D |
| With good success yield them both fair renown | E |
| And profit whether in the market sold | F |
| Or streets and let no strife ensue between us | G |
| But oh ye potters if with shameless front | H |
| Ye falsify your promise then I leave | I |
| No mischief uninvoked to avenge the wrong | J |
| Come Syntrips Smaragus Sabactes come | K |
| And Asbetus nor let your direst dread | L |
| Omodamus delay Fire seize your house | M |
| May neither house nor vestibule escape | N |
| May ye lament to see confusion mar | O |
| And mingle the whole labor of your hands | P |
| And may a sound fill all your oven such | Q |
| As of a horse grinding his provender | O |
| While all your pots and flagons bounce within | R |
| Come hither also daughter of the sun | S |
| Circe the sorceress and with thy drugs | T |
| Poison themselves and all that they have made | U |
| Of centaurs as well those who died beneath | V |
| The club of Hercules as who escaped | W |
| And stamp their crockery to dust down fall | C |
| Their chimney let them see it with their eyes | X |
| And howl to see the ruin of their art | Y |
| While I rejoice and if a potter stoop | Z |
| To peep into his furnace may the fire | O |
| Flash in his face and scorch it that all men | A2 |
| Observe thenceforth equity and good faith | B2 |
William Cowper
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