Mortals! Around Your Destined Heads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGHG IEIE JKLK MNON| Mortals around your destined heads | A |
| Thick fly the shafts of death | B |
| And lo the savage spoiler spreads | A |
| A thousand toils beneath | C |
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| In vain we trifle with our fate | D |
| Try every art in vain | E |
| At best we but prolong the date | D |
| And lengthen out our pain | E |
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| Fondly we think all danger fled | F |
| For death is ever nigh | G |
| Outstrips our unavailing speed | H |
| Or meets us as we fly | G |
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| Thus the wrecked mariner may strive | I |
| Some desert shore to gain | E |
| Secure of life if he survive | I |
| The fury of the main | E |
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| But there to famine doomed a prey | J |
| Finds the mistaken wretch | K |
| He but escaped the troubled sea | L |
| To perish on the beach | K |
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| Since then in vain we strive to guard | M |
| Our frailty from the foe | N |
| Lord let me live not unprepared | O |
| To meet the fatal blow | N |
William Cowper
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