To Mrs. Throckmorton, On Her Beautiful Transcript Of Horace's Ode, "ad Librum Suum." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHHHH| Maria could Horace have guess'd | A |
| What honour awaited his ode | B |
| To his own little volume address'd | A |
| The honour which you have bestow'd | B |
| Who have traced it in characters here | C |
| So elegant even and neat | D |
| He had laugh'd at the critical sneer | E |
| Which he seems to have trembled to meet | D |
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| And sneer if you please he had said | F |
| A nymph shall hereafter arise | G |
| Who shall give me when you are all dead | F |
| The glory your malice denies | G |
| Shall dignity give to my lay | H |
| Although but a mere bagatelle | H |
| And even a poet shall say | H |
| Nothing ever was written so well | H |
William Cowper
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