The Nightingale And Glowworm. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIJAAKK CCLLJJMMNNGGJJOOJJ| A nightingale that all day long | A |
| Had cheer'd the village with his song | A |
| Nor yet at eve his note suspended | B |
| Nor yet when eventide was ended | B |
| Began to feel as well he might | C |
| The keen demands of appetite | C |
| When looking eagerly around | D |
| He spied far off upon the ground | D |
| A something shining in the dark | E |
| And knew the glowworm by his spark | E |
| So stooping down from hawthorn top | F |
| He thought to put him in his crop | F |
| The worm aware of his intent | G |
| Harangued his thus right eloquent | H |
| Did you admire my lamp quoth he | I |
| As much as I your minstrelsy | J |
| You would abhor to do me wrong | A |
| As much as I to spoil your song | A |
| For 'twas the self same Power divine | K |
| Taught you to sing and me to shine | K |
| That you with music I with light | C |
| Might beautify and cheer the night | C |
| The songster heard his short oration | L |
| And warbling out his approbation | L |
| Released him as my story tells | J |
| And found a supper somewhere else | J |
| Hence jarring sectaries may learn | M |
| Their real interest to discern | M |
| That brother should not war with brother | N |
| And worry and devour each other | N |
| But sing and shine by sweet consent | G |
| Till life's poor transient night is spent | G |
| Respecting in each other's case | J |
| The gifts of nature and of grace | J |
| Those Christians best deserve the name | O |
| Who studiously make peace their aim | O |
| Peace both the duty and the prize | J |
| Of him that creeps and him that flies | J |
William Cowper
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