To The Rev. William Bull. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKL LMMNNNOOJJPPEEOOQQOO EERRSSTTUUOOVVJJWWOO JJOOXXOOOOVVYYJune | A |
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My dear Friend | B |
If reading verse be your delight | C |
Tis mine as much or more to write | C |
But what we would so weak is man | D |
Lies oft remote from what we can | D |
For instance at this very time | E |
I feel a wish by cheerful rhyme | E |
To soothe my friend and had I power | F |
To cheat him of an anxious hour | F |
Not meaning for I must confess | G |
It were but folly to suppress | G |
His pleasure or his good alone | H |
But squinting partly at my own | H |
But though the sun is flaming high | I |
In the centre of yon arch the sky | I |
And he had once and who but he | J |
The name for setting genius free | J |
Yet whether poets of past days | K |
Yielded him undeserved praise | K |
And he by no uncommon lot | L |
Was famed for virtues he had not | L |
Or whether which is like enough | M |
His Highness may have taken huff | M |
So seldom sought with invocation | N |
Since it has been the reigning fashion | N |
To disregard his inspiration | N |
I seem no brighter in my wits | O |
For all the radiance he emits | O |
Than if I saw through midnight vapour | J |
The glimmering of a farthing taper | J |
Oh for a succedaneum then | P |
To accelerate a creeping pen | P |
Oh for a ready succedaneum | E |
Quod caput cerebrum et cranium | E |
Pondere liberet exoso | O |
Et morbo jam caliginoso | O |
'Tis here this oval box well fill'd | Q |
With best tobacco finely mill'd | Q |
Beats all Anticyra's pretences | O |
To disengage the encumber'd senses | O |
Oh Nymph of transatlantic fame | E |
Where'er thine haunt whate'er thy name | E |
Whether reposing on the side | R |
Of Oroonoquo's spacious tide | R |
Or listening with delight not small | S |
To Niagara's distant fall | S |
'Tis thine to cherish and to feed | T |
The pungent nose refreshing weed | T |
Which whether pulverized it gain | U |
A speedy passage to the brain | U |
Or whether touch'd with fire it rise | O |
In circling eddies to the skies | O |
Does thought more quicken and refine | V |
Than all the breath of all the Nine | V |
Forgive the bard if bard he be | J |
Who once too wantonly made free | J |
To touch with a satiric wipe | W |
That symbol of thy power the pipe | W |
So may no blight infest thy plains | O |
And no unseasonable rains | O |
And so may smiling peace once more | J |
Visit America's sad shore | J |
And thou secure from all alarms | O |
Of thundering drums and glittering arms | O |
Rove unconfined beneath the shade | X |
Thy wide expanded leaves have made | X |
So may thy votaries increase | O |
And fumigation never cease | O |
May Newton with renew'd delights | O |
Perform thine odoriferous rites | O |
While clouds of incense half divine | V |
Involve thy disappearing shrine | V |
And so may smoke inhaling Bull | Y |
Be always filling never full | Y |
William Cowper
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