Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Ii. - I - How Soon, Alas! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDCDCEFDEFD| Part 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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