To The Rev. William Cawthorne Unwin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ AKALMM NONOBB| Unwin I should but ill repay | A |
| The kindness of a friend | B |
| Whose worth deserves as warm a lay | A |
| As ever friendship penned | B |
| Thy name omitted in a page | C |
| That would reclaim a vicious age | C |
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| An union formed 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 full 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 holds in 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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