The Poet's New Year's Gift. To Mrs. (afterwards Lady) Throckmorton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK| Maria I have every good | A |
| For thee wish'd many a time | B |
| Both sad and in a cheerful mood | C |
| But never yet in rhyme | B |
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| To wish thee fairer is no need | D |
| More prudent or more sprightly | E |
| Or more ingenious or more freed | D |
| From temper flaws unsightly | E |
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| What favour then not yet possess'd | F |
| Can I for thee require | G |
| In wedded love already blest | F |
| To thy whole heart's desire | G |
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| None here is happy but in part | H |
| Full bliss is bliss divine | I |
| There dwells some wish in every heart | H |
| And doubtless one in thine | I |
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| That wish on some fair future day | J |
| Which fate shall brightly gild | K |
| 'Tis blameless be it what it may | J |
| I wish it all fulfill'd | K |
William Cowper
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