Verses Printed By Himself, On A Flood At Olney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIICC| To watch the storms and hear the sky | A |
| Give all our almanacks the lie | A |
| To shake with cold and see the plains | B |
| In autumn drown'd with wintry rains | B |
| 'Tis thus I spend my moments here | C |
| And wish myself a Dutch mynheer | C |
| I then should have no need of wit | D |
| For lumpish Hollander unfit | D |
| Nor should I then repine at mud | E |
| Or meadows deluged with a flood | E |
| But in a bog live well content | F |
| And find it just my element | G |
| Should be a clod and not a man | H |
| Nor wish in vain for sister Ann | H |
| With charitable aid to drag | I |
| My mind out of its proper quag | I |
| Should have the genius of a boor | C |
| And no ambition to have more | C |
William Cowper
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