Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Ii. - I - How Soon, Alas! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDCDCEFDEFDPart II To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I | A |
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How soon alas did Man created pure | B |
By Angels guarded deviate from the line | C |
Prescribed to duty woeful forfeiture | D |
He made by willful breach of law divine | C |
With like perverseness did the Church abjure | D |
Obedience to her Lord and haste to twine | C |
'Mid Heaven born flowers that shall for aye endure | D |
Weeds on whose front the world had fixed her sign | C |
O Man if with thy trials thus it fares | E |
If good can smooth the way to evil choice | F |
From all rash censure be the mind kept free | D |
He only judges right who weighs compares | E |
And in the sternest sentence which his voice | F |
Pronounces ne'er abandons Charity | D |
William Wordsworth
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