Sonnet To George Romney, Esq. On His Picture Of Me In Crayons, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEDE FF| Drawn at Eartham in the st year of my age and in the months of August and September | A |
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| Romney expert infallibly to trace | B |
| On chart or canvas not the form alone | C |
| And semblance but however faintly shown | C |
| The mind's impression too on every face | B |
| With strokes that time ought never to erase | B |
| Thou hast so pencill'd mine that though I own | C |
| The subject worthless I have never known | C |
| The artist shining with superior grace | B |
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| But this I mark that symptoms none of woe | D |
| In thy incomparable work appear | E |
| Well I am satisfied it should be so | D |
| Since on maturer thought the cause is clear | E |
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| For in my looks what sorrow couldst thou see | F |
| When I was Hayley's guest and sat to thee | F |
William Cowper
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