To The Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ AKALMM NONOBBUnwin I should but ill repay | A |
The kindness of a friend | B |
Whose worth deserves as warm a lay | A |
As ever friendship penn'd | B |
Thy name omitted in a page | C |
That would reclaim a vicious age | C |
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A union form'd as mine with thee | D |
Not rashly or in sport | E |
May be as fervent in degree | D |
And faithful in its sort | E |
And may as rich in comfort prove | F |
As that of true fraternal love | G |
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The bud inserted in the rind | H |
The bud of peach or rose | I |
Adorns though differing in its kind | H |
The stock whereon it grows | I |
With flower as sweet or fruit as fair | J |
As if produced by nature there | J |
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Not rich I render what I may | A |
I seize thy name in haste | K |
And place it in this first essay | A |
Lest this should prove the last | L |
'Tis where it should be in a plan | M |
That hold sin view the good of man | M |
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The poet's lyre to fix his fame | N |
Should be the poet's heart | O |
Affection lights a brighter flame | N |
Than ever blazed by art | O |
No muses on these lines attend | B |
I sink the poet in the friend | B |
William Cowper
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