On A Similar Character (from The Greek) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEGYou give your cheks a rosy stain | A |
With washes dye your hair | B |
But paint and washes both are vain | A |
To give a youthful air | B |
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Those wrinkles mock your daily toil | C |
No labor will efface 'em | D |
You wear a mask of smoothest oil | C |
Yet still with ease we trace 'em | D |
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An art so fruitless then forsake | E |
Which though you much excel in | F |
You never can contrive to make | E |
Old Hecuba young Helen | G |
William Cowper
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