The Love Of The World Reproved: Or, Hypocrisy Detected Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGGGHHGGII JJGGKKLLMMNNGGOODD| Thus says the prophet of the Turk | A |
| Good Mussulman abstain from pork | B |
| There is a part in every swine | C |
| No friend of follower of mine | C |
| May taste whate'er his inclination | D |
| On pain of excommunication | D |
| Such Mahomet's mysterious charge | E |
| And thus he left the point at large | E |
| Had he the sinful part express'd | F |
| They might with safety eat the rest | F |
| But for one piece they thought it hard | G |
| From the whole hog to be debarr'd | G |
| And set their wit at work to find | G |
| What joint the prophet had in mind | G |
| Much controversy straight arose | H |
| These choose the back the belly those | H |
| By some 'tis confidently said | G |
| He meant not to forbid the head | G |
| While others at that doctrine rail | I |
| And piously prefer the tail | I |
| Thus conscience freed from every clog | J |
| Mahometans eat up the hog | J |
| You laugh 'tis well the tale applied | G |
| May make you laugh on t'other side | G |
| Renounce the world the preacher cries | K |
| We do a multitude replies | K |
| While one as innocent regards | L |
| A snug and friendly game at cards | L |
| And one whatever you may say | M |
| Can see no evil in a play | M |
| Some love a concert or a race | N |
| And others shooting and the chase | N |
| Reviled and loved renounced and follow'd | G |
| Thus bit by bit the world is swallow'd | G |
| Each thinks his neighbour makes too free | O |
| Yet likes a slice as well as he | O |
| With sophistry their sauce they sweeten | D |
| Till quite from tail to snout 'tis eaten | D |
William Cowper
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