On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGHIJ| Oh fond attempt to give a deathless lot | A |
| To names ignoble born to be forgot | A |
| In vain recorded in historic page | B |
| They court the notice of a future age | B |
| Those twinkling tiny lustres of the land | C |
| Drop one by one from Fame's neglecting hand | C |
| Leth an gulfs receive them as they fall | D |
| And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all | D |
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| So when a child as playful children use | E |
| Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news | F |
| The flame extinct he views the roving fire | G |
| There goes my lady and there goes the squire | H |
| There goes the parson oh illustrious spark | I |
| And there scarce less illustrious goes the clerk | J |
William Cowper
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