Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part I. - Viii - Temptations From Roman Refinements Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAABBADEEFDF| Watch and be firm for soul subduing vice | A |
| Heart killing luxury on your steps await | B |
| Fair houses baths and banquets delicate | C |
| And temples flashing bright as polar ice | A |
| Their radiance through the woods may yet suffice | A |
| To sap your hardy virtue and abate | B |
| Your love of Him upon whose forehead sate | B |
| The crown of thorns whose life blood flowed the price | A |
| Of your redemption Shun the insidious arts | D |
| That Rome provides less dreading from her frown | E |
| Than from her wily praise her peaceful gown | E |
| Language and letters these though fondly viewed | F |
| As humanising graces are but parts | D |
| And instruments of deadliest servitude | F |
William Wordsworth
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