On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1790 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EFEF GHIH JKLK MNMN OPOO QCQC RORO SFJF| Ne commonentem recta sperne Buchanan | A |
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| Despise not my good counsel | B |
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| He who sits from day to day | C |
| Where the prison'd lark is hung | D |
| Heedless of his loudest lay | C |
| Hardly knows that he has sung | D |
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| Where the watchman in his round | E |
| Nightly lifts his voice on high | F |
| None accustom'd to the sound | E |
| Wakes the sooner for his cry | F |
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| So your verse man I and clerk | G |
| Yearly in my song proclaim | H |
| Death at hand yourselves his mark | I |
| And the foe's unerring aim | H |
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| Duly at my time I come | J |
| Publishing to all aloud | K |
| Soon the grave must be your home | L |
| And your only suit a shroud | K |
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| But the monitory strain | M |
| Oft repeated in your ears | N |
| Seems to sound too much in vain | M |
| Wins no notice wakes no fears | N |
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| Can a truth by all confess'd | O |
| Of such magnitude and weight | P |
| Grow by being oft impress'd | O |
| Trivial as a parrot's prate | O |
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| Pleasure's call attention wins | Q |
| Hear it often as we may | C |
| New as ever seem our sins | Q |
| Though committed every day | C |
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| Death and judgment heaven and hell | R |
| These alone so often heard | O |
| No more move us than the bell | R |
| When some stranger is interr'd | O |
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| O then ere the turf or tomb | S |
| Cover us from every eye | F |
| Spirit of instruction come | J |
| Make us learn that we must die | F |
William Cowper
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