On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1789 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EFFF GFGF FFFF FFFF FFFF HIHI FJFJ GKGL| Placid que ibi demum morte quievit Virg | A |
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| There calm at length he breathed his soul away | B |
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| O most delightful hour by man | C |
| Experienced here below | D |
| The hour that terminates his span | C |
| His folly and his woe | D |
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| Worlds should not bribe me back to tread | E |
| Again life's dreary waste | F |
| To see again my day o'erspread | F |
| With all the gloomy past | F |
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| My home henceforth is in the skies | G |
| Earth seas and sun adieu | F |
| All heaven unfolded to my eyes | G |
| I have no sight for you | F |
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| So spake Aspasio firm possess'd | F |
| Of faith's supporting rod | F |
| Then breathed his soul into its rest | F |
| The bosom of his God | F |
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| He was a man among the few | F |
| Sincere on virtue's side | F |
| And all his strength from Scripture drew | F |
| To hourly use applied | F |
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| That rule he prized by that he fear'd | F |
| He hated hoped and loved | F |
| Nor ever frown'd or sad appear'd | F |
| But when his heart had roved | F |
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| For he was frail as thou or I | H |
| And evil felt within | I |
| But when he felt it heaved a sigh | H |
| And loathed the thought of sin | I |
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| Such lived Aspasio and at last | F |
| Call'd up from earth to heaven | J |
| The gulf of death triumphant pass'd | F |
| By gales of blessing driven | J |
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| His joys be mine each reader cries | G |
| When my last hour arrives | K |
| They shall be yours my verse replies | G |
| Such only be your lives | L |
William Cowper
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