On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1792. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADA EFEF GEGE HAHA EBEB IJIJ EAEA EKEK LELE EAEA| Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas | A |
| Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum | B |
| Subjecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari Virg | C |
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| Happy the mortal who has traced effects | A |
| To their first cause cast fear beneath his feet | D |
| And death and roaring hell's voracious fires | A |
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| Thankless for favours from on high | E |
| Man thinks he fades too soon | F |
| Though 'tis his privilege to die | E |
| Would he improve the boon | F |
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| But he not wise enough to scan | G |
| His blest concerns aright | E |
| Would gladly stretch life's little span | G |
| To ages if he might | E |
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| To ages in a world of pain | H |
| To ages where he goes | A |
| Gall'd by affliction's heavy chain | H |
| And hopeless of repose | A |
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| Strange fondness of the human heart | E |
| Enamour'd of its harm | B |
| Strange world that costs it so much smart | E |
| And still has power to charm | B |
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| Whence has the world her magic power | I |
| Why deem we death a foe | J |
| Recoil from weary life's best hour | I |
| And covet longer woe | J |
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| The cause is Conscience Conscience oft | E |
| Her tale of guilt renews | A |
| Her voice is terrible though soft | E |
| And dread of death ensues | A |
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| Then anxious to be longer spared | E |
| Man mourns his fleeting breath | K |
| All evils then seem light compared | E |
| With the approach of death | K |
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| 'Tis judgment shakes him there's the fear | L |
| That prompts the wish to stay | E |
| He has incurr'd a long arrear | L |
| And must despair to pay | E |
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| Pay follow Christ and all is paid | E |
| His death your peace ensures | A |
| Think on the grave where He was laid | E |
| And calm descend to yours | A |
William Cowper
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