On The Author Of Letters On Literature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| The genius of the Augustan age | A |
| His head among Rome's ruins reared | B |
| And bursting with heroic rage | A |
| When literary Heron appeared | B |
| - | |
| Thou hast he cried like him of old | C |
| Who set the Ephesian dome on fir | D |
| By being scandalously bold | C |
| Attained the mark of thy desire | D |
| - | |
| And for traducing Virgil's name | E |
| Shalt share his merited reward | F |
| A perpetuity of fame | E |
| That rots and stinks and is abhorred | F |
William Cowper
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