Vanity Of The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGHG IJII KLEL IIII| God gives his mercies to be spent | A |
| Your hoard will do your soul no good | B |
| Gold is a blessing only lent | A |
| Repaid by giving others food | C |
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| The world's esteem is but a bribe | D |
| To buy their peace you sell your own | E |
| The slave of a vainglorious tribe | D |
| Who hate you while they make you known | E |
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| The joy that vain amusements give | F |
| Oh sad conclusion that it brings | G |
| The honey of a crowded hive | H |
| Defended by a thousand stings | G |
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| 'Tis thus the world rewards the fools | I |
| That live upon her treacherous smiles | J |
| She leads them blindfold by her rules | I |
| And ruins all whom she beguiles | I |
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| God knows the thousands who go down | K |
| From pleasure into endless woe | L |
| And with a long despairing groan | E |
| Blaspheme the Maker as they go | L |
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| Oh fearful thought be timely wise | I |
| Delight but in a Saviour's charms | I |
| And God shall take you to the skies | I |
| Embraced in everlasting arms | I |
William Cowper
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