On Mrs. Montague's Feather Hangings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHBBAA IIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPBBQQ RRSSTTOOUUFFDDVV| The Birds put off their every hue | A |
| To dress a room for Montagu | A |
| The peacock sends his heavenly dyes | B |
| His rainbows and his starry eyes | B |
| The pheasant plumes which round enfold | C |
| His mantling neck with downy gold | C |
| The cock his arch d tail s azure show | D |
| And river blanch d the swan his snow | D |
| All tribes beside of Indian name | E |
| That glossy shine or vivid flame | E |
| Where rises and where sets the day | F |
| Whate'er they boast of rich and gay | F |
| Contribute to the gorgeous plan | G |
| Proud to advance it all they can | G |
| This plumage neither dashing shower | H |
| Nor blasts that shake the dripping bower | H |
| Shall drench again or discompose | B |
| But screen'd from every storm that blows | B |
| It boasts a splendour ever new | A |
| Safe with protecting Montagu | A |
| To the same patroness resort | I |
| Secure of favour at her court | I |
| Strong Genius from whose forge of thought | J |
| Forms rise to quick perfection wrought | J |
| Which though new born with vigour move | K |
| Like Pallas springing arm'd from Jove | K |
| Imagination scattering round | L |
| Wild roses over furrow'd ground | L |
| Which Labour of his frown beguile | M |
| And teach Philosophy a smile | M |
| Wit flashing on Religion s side | N |
| Whose fires to sacred truth applied | N |
| The gem though luminous before | O |
| Obtrude on human notice more | O |
| Like sunbeams on the golden height | P |
| Of some tall temple playing bright | P |
| Well tutor d Learning from his books | B |
| Dismiss'd with grave not haughty looks | B |
| Their order on his shelves exact | Q |
| Not more harmonious or compact | Q |
| Than that to which he keeps confined | R |
| The various treasures of his mind | R |
| All these to Montagu's repair | S |
| Ambitious of a shelter there | S |
| There Genius Learning Fancy Wit | T |
| Their ruffled plumage calm refit | T |
| For stormy troubles loudest roar | O |
| Around their flight who highest soar | O |
| And in her eye and by her aid | U |
| Shine safe without a fear to fade | U |
| She thus maintains divided sway | F |
| With yon bright regent of the day | F |
| The Plume and Poet both we know | D |
| Their lustre to his influence owe | D |
| And she the works of Ph bus aiding | V |
| Both Poet saves and Plume from fading | V |
William Cowper
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