Self-love And Truth Incompatible Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LMNNOOPPQQAA| From thorny wilds a monster came | A |
| That filled my soul with fear and shame | A |
| The birds forgetful of their mirth | B |
| Drooped at the sight and fell to earth | B |
| When thus a sage addressed mine ear | C |
| Himself unconscious of a fear | D |
| 'Whence all this terror and surprise | E |
| Distracted looks and streaming eyes | E |
| Far from the world and its affairs | F |
| The joy it boasts the pain it shares | F |
| Surrender without guile or art | G |
| To God an undivided heart | G |
| The savage form so feared before | H |
| Shall scare your trembling soul no more | H |
| For loathsome as the sight may be | I |
| 'Tis but the love of self you see | I |
| Fix all your love on God alone | J |
| Choose but his will and hate your own | J |
| No fear shall in your path be found | K |
| The dreary waste shall bloom around | K |
| And you through all your happy days | L |
| Shall bless his name and sing his praise ' | M |
| Oh lovely solitude how sweet | N |
| The silence of this calm retreat | N |
| Here truth the fair whom I pursue | O |
| Gives all her beauty to my view | O |
| The simple unadorned display | P |
| Charms every pain and fear away | P |
| O Truth whom millions proudly slight | Q |
| O Truth my treasure and delight | Q |
| Accept this tribute to thy name | A |
| And this poor heart from which it came | A |
William Cowper
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