Book Iv. Ode I. To Venus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMMJJNNOOPQPPRRSTUU VVJJWXOO| Again new tumults in my breast | A |
| Ah spare me Venus let me let me rest | A |
| I am not now alas the man | B |
| As in the gentle reign of my Queen Anne | B |
| Ah sound no more thy soft alarms | C |
| Nor circle sober fifty with thy charms | C |
| Mother too fierce of dear desires | D |
| Turn turn to willing hearts your wanton fires | D |
| To Number Five direct your doves | E |
| There spread round Murray all your blooming loves | E |
| Noble and young who strikes the heart | F |
| With every sprightly every decent part | F |
| Equal the injured to defend | G |
| To charm the mistress or to fix the friend | G |
| He with a hundred arts refined | H |
| Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind | H |
| To him each rival shall submit | I |
| Make but his riches equal to his wit | I |
| Then shall thy form the marble grace | J |
| Thy Grecian form and Chloe lend the face | J |
| His house embosom'd in the grove | K |
| Sacred to social life and social love | L |
| Shall glitter o'er the pendant green | M |
| Where Thames reflects the visionary scene | M |
| Thither the silver sounding lyres | J |
| Shall call the smiling Loves and young Desires | J |
| There every Grace and Muse shall throng | N |
| Exalt the dance or animate the song | N |
| There youths and nymphs in consort gay | O |
| Shall hail the rising close the parting day | O |
| With me alas those joys are o'er | P |
| For me the vernal garlands bloom no more | Q |
| Adieu fond hope of mutual fire | P |
| The still believing still renew'd desire | P |
| Adieu the heart expanding bowl | R |
| And all the kind deceivers of the soul | R |
| But why ah tell me ah too dear | S |
| Steals down my cheek th' involuntary tear | T |
| Why words so flowing thoughts so free | U |
| Stop or turn nonsense at one glance of thee | U |
| Thee dress'd in fancy's airy beam | V |
| Absent I follow through th' extended dream | V |
| Now now I seize I clasp thy charms | J |
| And now you burst ah cruel from my arms | J |
| And swiftly shoot along the Mall | W |
| Or softly glide by the canal | X |
| Now shown by Cynthia's silver ray | O |
| And now on rolling waters snatch'd away | O |
Alexander Pope
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