To Mrs. King, On Her Kind Present To The Author, A Patchwork Counterpane Of Her Own Making. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIJ KKLMML NNBFFB CCOAAO| The bard if e'er he feel at all | A |
| Must sure be quicken'd by a call | A |
| Both on his heart and head | B |
| To pay with tuneful thanks the care | C |
| And kindness of a lady fair | C |
| Who deigns to deck his bed | B |
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| A bed like this in ancient time | D |
| On Ida's barren top sublime | D |
| As Homer's epic shows | E |
| Composed of sweetest vernal flowers | F |
| Without the aid of sun or showers | F |
| For Jove and Juno rose | E |
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| Less beautiful however gay | G |
| Is that which in the scorching day | G |
| Receives the weary swain | H |
| Who laying his long scythe aside | I |
| Sleeps on some bank with daisies pied | I |
| Till roused to toil again | J |
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| What labours of the loom I see | K |
| Looms numberless have groan'd for me | K |
| Should every maiden come | L |
| To scramble for the patch that bears | M |
| The impress of the robe she wears | M |
| The bell would toll for some | L |
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| And oh what havoc would ensue | N |
| This bright display of every hue | N |
| All in a moment fled | B |
| As if a storm should strip the bowers | F |
| Of all their tendrils leaves and flowers | F |
| Each pocketing a shred | B |
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| Thanks then to every gentle fair | C |
| Who will not come to peck me bare | C |
| As bird of borrow'd feather | O |
| And thanks to one above them all | A |
| The gentle fair of Pertenhall | A |
| Who put the whole together | O |
William Cowper
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