Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHCIC JIJKLMLM NONPQOQR STSTUCUC VWVWXYXY ZYZYEA2EB2| I am monarch of all I survey | A |
| My right there is none to dispute | B |
| From the centre all round to the sea | C |
| I am lord of the fowl and the brute | B |
| O Solitude where are the charms | D |
| That sages have seen in thy face | E |
| Better dwell in the midst of alarms | D |
| Than reign in this horrible place | E |
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| I am out of humanity's reach | F |
| I must finish my journey alone | G |
| Never hear the sweet music of speech | F |
| I start at the sound of my own | G |
| The beasts that roam over the plain | H |
| My form with indifference see | C |
| They are so unacquainted with man | I |
| Their tameness is shocking to me | C |
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| Society Friendship and Love | J |
| Divinely bestow'd upon man | I |
| Oh had I the wings of a dove | J |
| How soon would I taste you again | K |
| My sorrows I then might assuage | L |
| In the ways of religion and truth | M |
| Might learn from the wisdom of age | L |
| And be cheer'd by the sallies of youth | M |
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| Religion what treasure untold | N |
| Resides in that heavenly word | O |
| More precious than silver and gold | N |
| Or all that this earth can afford | P |
| But the sound of the church going bell | Q |
| These valleys and rocks never heard | O |
| Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell | Q |
| Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared | R |
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| Ye winds that have made me your sport | S |
| Convey to this desolate shore | T |
| Some cordial endearing report | S |
| Of a land I shall visit no more | T |
| My friends do they now and then send | U |
| A wish or a thought after me | C |
| O tell me I yet have a friend | U |
| Though a friend I am never to see | C |
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| How fleet is a glance of the mind | V |
| Compared with the speed of its flight | W |
| The tempest itself lags behind | V |
| And the swift wing d arrows of light | W |
| When I think of my own native land | X |
| In a moment I seem to be there | Y |
| But alas recollection at hand | X |
| Soon hurries me back to despair | Y |
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| But the sea fowl is gone to her nest | Z |
| The beast is laid down in his lair | Y |
| Even here is a season of rest | Z |
| And I to my cabin repair | Y |
| There's mercy in every place | E |
| And mercy encouraging thought | A2 |
| Gives even affliction a grace | E |
| And reconciles man to his lot | B2 |
William Cowper
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