From A Letter To The Rev. Mr. Newton, Late Rector Of St. Mary Woolnoth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LHLH| Says the pipe to the snuff box I can't understand | A |
| What the ladies and gentlemen see in your face | B |
| That you are in fashion all over the land | A |
| And I am so much fallen into disgrace | B |
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| Do but see what a pretty contemplative air | C |
| I give to the company pray do but note 'em | D |
| You would think that the wise men of Greece were all there | C |
| Or at least would suppose them the wise men of Gotham | D |
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| My breath is as sweet as the breath of blown roses | E |
| While you are a nuisance where'er you appear | F |
| There is nothing but snivelling and blowing of noses | E |
| Such a noise as turns any man's stomach to hear | G |
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| Then lifting his lid in a delicate way | H |
| And opening his mouth with a smile quite engaging | I |
| The box in reply was heard plainly to say | H |
| What a silly dispute is this we are waging | I |
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| If you have a little of merit to claim | J |
| You may thank the sweet smelling Virginian weed | K |
| And I if I seem to deserve any blame | J |
| The before mention'd drug in apology plead | K |
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| Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own | L |
| No room for a sneer much less a cachinnus | H |
| We are vehicles not of tobacco alone | L |
| But of anything else they may choose to put in us | H |
William Cowper
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