Ode To Apollo. On An Inkglass Almost Dried In The Sun. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCC EFEF GHGI CJCJ KLKL MHMI| Patron of all those luckless brains | A |
| That to the wrong side leaning | B |
| Indite much metre with much pains | A |
| And little or no meaning | B |
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| Ah why since oceans rivers streams | C |
| That water all the nations | D |
| Pay tribute to thy glorious beams | C |
| In constant exhalations | C |
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| Why stooping from the noon of day | E |
| Too covetous of drink | F |
| Apollo hast thou stolen away | E |
| A poet's drop of ink | F |
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| Upborne into the viewless air | G |
| It floats a vapour now | H |
| Impell'd through regions dense and rare | G |
| By all the winds that blow | I |
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| Ordain'd perhaps ere summer flies | C |
| Combined with millions more | J |
| To form an iris in the skies | C |
| Though black and foul before | J |
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| Illustrious drop and happy then | K |
| Beyond the happiest lot | L |
| Of all that ever pass'd my pen | K |
| So soon to be forgot | L |
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| Phoebus if such be thy design | M |
| To place it in thy bow | H |
| Give wit that what is left may shine | M |
| With equal grace below | I |
William Cowper
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