On The Promotion Of Edward Thurlow, Esq. To The Lord High Chancellorship Of England. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK| Round Thurlow's head in early youth | A |
| And in his sportive days | B |
| Fair Science pour'd the light of truth | A |
| And Genius shed his rays | B |
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| See with united wonder cried | C |
| The experienced and the sage | D |
| Ambition in a boy supplied | C |
| With all the skill of age | D |
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| Discernment eloquence and grace | E |
| Proclaim him born to sway | F |
| The balance in the highest place | E |
| And bear the palm away | F |
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| The praise bestow'd was just and wise | G |
| He sprang impetuous forth | H |
| Secure of conquest where the prize | G |
| Attends superior worth | I |
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| So the best courser on the plain | J |
| Ere yet he starts is known | K |
| And does but at the goal obtain | J |
| What all had deem'd his own | K |
William Cowper
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