Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Ii. - Xviii - Corruptions Of The Higher Clergy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEFEED| Woe to you Prelates rioting in ease | A |
| And cumbrous wealth the shame of your estate | B |
| You on whose progress dazzling trains await | B |
| Of pompous horses whom vain titles please | A |
| Who will be served by others on their knees | A |
| Yet will yourselves to God no service pay | C |
| Pastors who neither take nor point the way | C |
| To Heaven for either lost in vanities | A |
| Ye have no skill to teach or if ye know | D |
| And speak the word Alas of fearful things | E |
| 'Tis the most fearful when the people's eye | F |
| Abuse hath cleared from vain imaginings | E |
| And taught the general voice to prophesy | E |
| Of Justice armed and Pride to be laid low | D |
William Wordsworth
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