Epitaph On Robert Southey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGHGIIFF| Christian for none who scorns that holy name | A |
| Can gaze with honest eyes on Southey's fame | A |
| Christian bow down thy head in humble fear | B |
| And think what God given powers lie silenced here | C |
| Wit judgment memory patience unsubdued | D |
| Conception vast and pious fortitude | D |
| Learning possessed no steeps and truth no shore | E |
| Beyond his step to tread his wing to soar | E |
| His was the historian's pen the poet's lyre | F |
| The churchman's ardour and the patriot's fire | G |
| While fireside charities Heaven's gentlest dower | H |
| Lent genius all their warmth and all their power | G |
| O Church and State of England thine was he | I |
| In living fame thine be his memory | I |
| Thou saw'st him live in faith expire | F |
| Go bid thy sons to follow and admire | F |
William Lisle Bowles
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