To A Friend - On The Banks Of The Derwent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCDEFGEHH| Pastor and Patriot at whose bidding rise | A |
| These modest walls amid a flock that need | B |
| For one who comes to watch them and to feed | B |
| A fixed Abode keep down presageful sighs | A |
| Threats which the unthinking only can despise | A |
| Perplex the Church but be thou firm be true | C |
| To thy first hope and this good work pursue | C |
| Poor as thou art A welcome sacrifice | D |
| Dost Thou prepare whose sign will be the smoke | E |
| Of thy new hearth and sooner shall its wreaths | F |
| Mounting while earth her morning incense breathes | G |
| From wandering fiends of air receive a yoke | E |
| And straightway cease to aspire than God disdain | H |
| This humble tribute as ill timed or vain | H |
William Wordsworth
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