Upon A Venerable Rival Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEG DHIJ KLML NENE EOEO| Full thirty frosts since thou wert young | A |
| Have chilled the withered grove | B |
| Thou wretch and hast thou lived so long | C |
| Nor yet forgot to love | D |
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| Ye sages spite of your pretences | E |
| To wisdom you must own | F |
| Your folly frequently commences | E |
| When you acknowledge none | G |
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| Not that I deem it weak to love | D |
| Or folly to admire | H |
| But ah the pangs we lovers prove | I |
| Far other years require | J |
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| Unheeded on the youthful brow | K |
| The beams of Phoebus play | L |
| But unsupported age stoops low | M |
| Beneath the sultry ray | L |
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| For once then if untutored youth | N |
| Youth unapproved by years | E |
| May chance to deviate into truth | N |
| When your experience errs | E |
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| For once attempt not to despise | E |
| What I esteem a rule | O |
| Who early loves though young is wise | E |
| Who old though gray a fool | O |
William Cowper
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