The Judgement Of The Poets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMNM OPOQ RSRS TUVU WQW| Two nymphs both nearly of an age | A |
| Of numerous charms possessed | B |
| A warm dispute once chanced to wage | A |
| Whose temper was the best | B |
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| The worth of each had been complete | C |
| Had both alike been mild | D |
| But one although her smile was sweet | C |
| Frowned oftener than she smiled | D |
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| And in her humour when she frowned | E |
| Would raise her voice and roar | F |
| And shake with fury to the ground | E |
| The garland that she wore | F |
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| The other was of gentler cast | G |
| From all such frenzy clear | H |
| Her frowns were seldom known to last | G |
| And never proved severe | H |
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| To poets of renown in song | I |
| The nymphs referred the cause | J |
| Who strange to tell all judged it wrong | I |
| And gave misplaced applause | K |
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| They gentle called and kind and soft | L |
| The flippant and the scold | M |
| And though she changed her mood so oft | N |
| That failing left untold | M |
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| No judges sure were e'er so mad | O |
| Or so resolved to err | P |
| In short the charms her sister had | O |
| They lavished all on her | Q |
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| Then thus the God whom fondly they | R |
| Their great Inspirer call | S |
| Was heard one genial summer's day | R |
| To reprimand them all | S |
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| 'Since thus ye have combined ' he said | T |
| 'My favourite nymph to slight | U |
| Adorning May that peevish maid | V |
| With June's undoubted right | U |
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| 'The minx shall for your folly's sake | W |
| Still prove herself a shrew | Q |
| Shall make your scribbling fingers ache | W |
| And pinch your noses blue ' | - |
William Cowper
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