On Pedigree. From Epicharmus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMHNJOPQ| My mother if thou love me name no more | A |
| My noble birth Sounding at every breath | B |
| My noble birth thou kill'st me Thither fly | C |
| As to their only refuge all from whom | D |
| Nature withholds all good besides they boast | E |
| Their noble birth conduct us to the tombs | F |
| Of their forefathers and from age to age | G |
| Ascending trumpet their illustrious race | H |
| But whom hast thou beheld or canst thou name | I |
| Derived from no forefathers Such a man | J |
| Lives not for how could such be born at all | K |
| And if it chance that native of a land | L |
| Far distant or in infancy deprived | M |
| Of all his kindred one who cannot trace | H |
| His origin exist why deem him sprung | N |
| From baser ancestry than theirs who can | J |
| My mother he whom nature at his birth | O |
| Endow'd with virtuous qualities although | P |
| An thiop and a slave is nobly born | Q |
William Cowper
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