Stanzas. On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of Milton.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHGH IJIJ KLKL JJJJ| Me too perchance in future days | A |
| The sculptured stone shall show | B |
| With Paphian myrtle or with bays | A |
| Parnassian on my brow | C |
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| But I or ere that season come | D |
| Escaped from every care | E |
| Shall reach my refuge in the tomb | F |
| And sleep securely there | E |
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| So sang in Roman tone and style | G |
| The youthful bard ere long | H |
| Ordain'd to grace his native isle | G |
| With her sublimest song | H |
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| Who then but must conceive disdain | I |
| Hearing the deed unblest | J |
| Of wretches who have dared profane | I |
| His dread sepulchral rest | J |
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| Ill fare the hands that heaved the stones | K |
| Where Milton's ashes lay | L |
| That trembled not to grasp his bones | K |
| And steal his dust away | L |
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| O ill requited bard neglect | J |
| Thy living worth repaid | J |
| And blind idolatrous respect | J |
| As much affronts thee dead | J |
William Cowper
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