Love Abused Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHGGIJ KLGG| What is there in the vale of life | A |
| Half so delighted as a wife | A |
| When friendship love and peace combine | B |
| To stamp the marriage bond divine | B |
| The stream of pure and genuine love | C |
| Derive its current from above | C |
| And earth a second Eden shows | D |
| Where'er the healing water flows | D |
| But ah if from the dikes and drains | E |
| Of sensual Nature's feverish veins | E |
| Lust like a lawless headstrong flood | F |
| Impregnated with ooze and mud | F |
| Descending fast on every side | G |
| Once mingles with the sacred tide | G |
| Farewell the soul enlivening scene | H |
| The banks that wore a smiling green | H |
| With rank defilement overspread | G |
| Bewail their flowery beauties dead | G |
| The stream polluted dark and dull | I |
| Diffused into a Stygian pool | J |
| Through life's last melancholy years | K |
| Is fed with overflowing tears | L |
| Complaints supply the zephyr's part | G |
| And sighs that heave a breaking heart | G |
William Cowper
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