On The Death Of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Ye Nymphs if e'er your eyes were red	A
With tears o'er hapless favourites shed	A
Oh share Maria's grief	B
Her favourite even in his cage	C
What will not hunger's cruel rage	C
Assassined by a thief	B
	-
Where Rhenus strays his vines among	D
The egg was laid from which he sprung	D
And though by nature mute	E
Or only with a whistle blessed	F
Well taught he all the sounds expressed	F
Of flageolet or flute	E
	-
The honours of his ebon poll	G
Were brighter than the sleekest mole	G
His bosom of the hue	H
With which Aurora decks the skies	I
When piping winds shall soon arise	I
To sweep away the dew	H
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Above below in all the house	J
Dire foe alike of bird and mouse	J
No cat had leave to dwell	K
And Bully's cage supported stood	L
On props of smoothest shaven wood	L
Large built and latticed well	K
	-
Well latticed but the grate alas	M
Not rough with wire of steel or brass	M
For Bully's plumage sake	N
But smooth with wands from Ouse's side	O
With which when neatly peeled and dried	O
The swains their baskets make	N
	-
Night veiled the pole all seemed secure	P
When led by instinct sharp and sure	P
Subsistence to provide	O
A beast forth sallied on the scout	Q
Long backed long tailed with whiskered snout	Q
And badger coloured hide	O
	-
He entering at the study door	R
Its ample area 'gan explore	R
And something in the wind	S
Conjectured sniffing round and round	T
Better than all the books he found	T
Food chiefly for the mind	S
	-
Just then by adverse fate impressed	F
A dream disturbed poor Bully's rest	F
In sleep he seemed to view	H
A rat fast clinging to the cage	C
And screaming at the sad presage	U
Awoke and found it true	H
	-
For aided both by ear and scent	V
Right to his mark the monster went	V
Ah Muse forbear to speak	W
Minute the horrors that ensued	X
His teeth were strong the cage was wood	L
He left poor Bully's beak	W
	-
Oh he had made that too his prey	Y
That beak whence issued many a lay	Y
Of such mellifluous tone	Z
Might have repaid him well I wote	L
For silencing so sweet a throat	L
Fast struck within his own	Z
	-
Maria weeps the Muses mourn	A2
So when by Bacchanalians torn	A2
On Thracian Hebrus' side	L
The tree enchanter Orpheus fell	K
His head alone remained to tell	K
The cruel death he died	L

William Cowper

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