Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FAFAAGAG HDIDJKJK AAAALMLM NOPQRARA CSCSTUTU AAAAVWVW| This cap that so stately apepars | A |
| With ribbon bound tassel on high | B |
| Which seems by the crest that it rears | A |
| Ambitious of brushing the sky | B |
| This cap to my Cousin I owe | C |
| She gave it and gave me beside | D |
| Wreathed into an elegant bow | E |
| The ribbon with which it was tied | D |
| - | |
| This wheel footed studying chair | F |
| Contrived both for toil and repose | A |
| Wide elbowed and wadded with air | F |
| In which I both scribble and doze | A |
| Bright studded to dazzle the eyes | A |
| And rival in lustre of that | G |
| In which or astronomy lies | A |
| Fair Cassiope a sat | G |
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| These carpets so soft to the foot | H |
| Caledonia's traffic and pride | D |
| O spare them ye knights of the boot | I |
| Escaped from a cross country ride | D |
| This table and mirror within | J |
| Secure from collision and dust | K |
| At which I oft shave cheek and chin | J |
| And periwig nicely adjust | K |
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| This moveable structure of shelves | A |
| For its beauty admired and its use | A |
| And charged with octavos and twelves | A |
| The gayest I had to produce | A |
| Where flaming in scarlet and gold | L |
| My poems enchanted I view | M |
| And hope in due time to behold | L |
| My Iliad and Odyssey too | M |
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| This china that decks the alcove | N |
| Which here people call a buffet | O |
| But what the gods call it above | P |
| Has ne'er been revealed to us yet | Q |
| These curtains that keep the room warm | R |
| Or cool as the season demands | A |
| Those stoves that for pattern and form | R |
| Seem the labour of Mulciber's hands | A |
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| All these are not half that I owe | C |
| To One from our earliest youth | S |
| To me ever ready to show | C |
| Benignity friendship and truth | S |
| For time the destroyer declared | T |
| And foe of our perishing kind | U |
| If even her face he has spared | T |
| Much less could he alter her mind | U |
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| Thus compassed about with the goods | A |
| And chattels of leisure and ease | A |
| I indulge my poetical moods | A |
| In many such fancies as these | A |
| And fancies I fear they will seem | V |
| Poets' goods are not often so fine | W |
| The poets will swear that I dream | V |
| When I sing of the splendour of mine | W |
William Cowper
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