Mutual Forbearance Necessary To The Happiness Of The Married State Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHIJJKKLMNN OOPQRRSSTTUUVWXXYYZA 2SSB2B2C2C2YYD2D2XXE 2F2G2G2YYXXDD| The lady thus address'd her spouse | A |
| What a mere dungeon is this house | A |
| By no means large enough and was it | B |
| Yet this dull room and that dark closet | C |
| Those hangings with their worn out graces | D |
| Long beards long noses and pale faces | E |
| Are such an antiquated scene | F |
| They overwhelm me with the spleen | F |
| Sir Humphrey shooting in the dark | G |
| Makes answer quite beside the mark | G |
| No doubt my dear I bade him come | H |
| Engaged myself to be at home | I |
| And shall expect him at the door | J |
| Precisely when the clock strikes four | J |
| You are so deaf the lady cried | K |
| And raised her voice and frown'd beside | K |
| You are so sadly deaf my dear | L |
| What shall I do to make you hear | M |
| Dismiss poor Harry he replies | N |
| Some people are more nice than wise | N |
| For one slight trespass all this stir | O |
| What if he did ride whip and spur | O |
| 'Twas but a mile your favourite horse | P |
| Will never look one hair the worse | Q |
| Well I protest 'tis past all bearing | R |
| Child I am rather hard of hearing | R |
| Yes truly one must scream and bawl | S |
| I tell you you can't hear at all | S |
| Then with a voice exceeding low | T |
| No matter if you hear or no | T |
| Alas and is domestic strife | U |
| That sorest ill of human life | U |
| A plague so little to be fear'd | V |
| As to be wantonly incurr'd | W |
| To gratify a fretful passion | X |
| On every trivial provocation | X |
| The kindest and the happiest pair | Y |
| Will find occasion to forbear | Y |
| And something every day they live | Z |
| To pity and perhaps forgive | A2 |
| But if infirmities that fall | S |
| In common to the lot of all | S |
| A blemish or a sense impair'd | B2 |
| Are crimes so little to be spared | B2 |
| Then farewell all that must create | C2 |
| The comfort of the wedded state | C2 |
| Instead of harmony 'tis jar | Y |
| And tumult and intestine war | Y |
| The love that cheers life's latest stage | D2 |
| Proof against sickness and old age | D2 |
| Preserved by virtue from declension | X |
| Becomes not weary of attention | X |
| But lives when that exterior grace | E2 |
| Which first inspired the flame decays | F2 |
| 'Tis gentle delicate and kind | G2 |
| To faults compassionate or blind | G2 |
| And will with sympathy endure | Y |
| Those evils it would gladly cure | Y |
| But angry coarse and harsh expression | X |
| Shows love to be a mere profession | X |
| Proves that the heart is none of his | D |
| Or soon expels him if it is | D |
William Cowper
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