Human Frailty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLN| Weak and irresolute is man | A |
| The purpose of to day | B |
| Woven with pains into his plan | A |
| To morrow rends away | B |
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| The bow well bent and smart the spring | C |
| Vice seems already slain | D |
| But passion rudely snaps the string | C |
| And it revives again | E |
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| Some foe to his upright intent | F |
| Finds out his weaker part | G |
| Virtue engages his assent | F |
| But Pleasure wins his heart | G |
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| Tis here the folly of the wise | H |
| Through all his art we view | I |
| And while his tongue the charge denies | H |
| His conscience owns it true | I |
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| Bound on a voyage of awful length | J |
| And dangers little known | K |
| A stranger to superior strength | J |
| Man vainly trusts his own | K |
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| But oars alone can ne er prevail | L |
| To reach the distant coast | M |
| The breath of Heaven must swell the sail | L |
| Or all the toil is lost | N |
William Cowper
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