On A Similar Character (from The Greek) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG| You 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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