To The Rev. William Bull. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKL LMMNNNOOJJPPEEOOQQOO EERRSSTTUUOOVVJJWWOO JJOOXXOOOOVVYY

JuneA
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My dear FriendB
If reading verse be your delightC
Tis mine as much or more to writeC
But what we would so weak is manD
Lies oft remote from what we canD
For instance at this very timeE
I feel a wish by cheerful rhymeE
To soothe my friend and had I powerF
To cheat him of an anxious hourF
Not meaning for I must confessG
It were but folly to suppressG
His pleasure or his good aloneH
But squinting partly at my ownH
But though the sun is flaming highI
In the centre of yon arch the skyI
And he had once and who but heJ
The name for setting genius freeJ
Yet whether poets of past daysK
Yielded him undeserved praiseK
And he by no uncommon lotL
Was famed for virtues he had notL
Or whether which is like enoughM
His Highness may have taken huffM
So seldom sought with invocationN
Since it has been the reigning fashionN
To disregard his inspirationN
I seem no brighter in my witsO
For all the radiance he emitsO
Than if I saw through midnight vapourJ
The glimmering of a farthing taperJ
Oh for a succedaneum thenP
To accelerate a creeping penP
Oh for a ready succedaneumE
Quod caput cerebrum et craniumE
Pondere liberet exosoO
Et morbo jam caliginosoO
'Tis here this oval box well fill'dQ
With best tobacco finely mill'dQ
Beats all Anticyra's pretencesO
To disengage the encumber'd sensesO
Oh Nymph of transatlantic fameE
Where'er thine haunt whate'er thy nameE
Whether reposing on the sideR
Of Oroonoquo's spacious tideR
Or listening with delight not smallS
To Niagara's distant fallS
'Tis thine to cherish and to feedT
The pungent nose refreshing weedT
Which whether pulverized it gainU
A speedy passage to the brainU
Or whether touch'd with fire it riseO
In circling eddies to the skiesO
Does thought more quicken and refineV
Than all the breath of all the NineV
Forgive the bard if bard he beJ
Who once too wantonly made freeJ
To touch with a satiric wipeW
That symbol of thy power the pipeW
So may no blight infest thy plainsO
And no unseasonable rainsO
And so may smiling peace once moreJ
Visit America's sad shoreJ
And thou secure from all alarmsO
Of thundering drums and glittering armsO
Rove unconfined beneath the shadeX
Thy wide expanded leaves have madeX
So may thy votaries increaseO
And fumigation never ceaseO
May Newton with renew'd delightsO
Perform thine odoriferous ritesO
While clouds of incense half divineV
Involve thy disappearing shrineV
And so may smoke inhaling BullY
Be always filling never fullY

William Cowper



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