To My Cousin, Anne Bodham, On Receiving From Her A Network Purse Made By Herself Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGGF| My gentle Anne whom heretofore | A |
| When I was young and thou no more | A |
| Than plaything for a nurse | B |
| I danced and fondled on my knee | C |
| A kitten both in size and glee | C |
| I thank thee for my purse | B |
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| Gold pays the worth of all things here | D |
| But not of love that gem's too dear | E |
| For richest rogue's to win it | F |
| I therefore as a proof of love | G |
| Esteem thy present far above | G |
| The best things kept within it | F |
William Cowper
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