Chorus Of Youths And Virgins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEAAFBFB AGHAABBFFBIBI ABJBBAABKAGAH AAAALFFFL| Semichorus | A |
| Oh Tyrant Love hast thou possest | B |
| The prudent learn'd and virtuous breast | B |
| Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim | C |
| And Arts but soften us to feel thy flame | C |
| Love soft intruder enters here | D |
| But ent'ring learns to be sincere | E |
| Marcus with blushes owns he loves | A |
| And Brutus tenderly reproves | A |
| Why Virtue dost thou blame desire | F |
| Which Nature has imprest | B |
| Why Nature dost thou soonest fire | F |
| The mild and gen'rous breast | B |
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| Chorus | A |
| Love's purer flames the Gods approve | G |
| The Gods and Brutus bent to love | H |
| Brutus for absent Portia sighs | A |
| And sterner Cassius melts at Junia's eyes | A |
| What is loose love a transient gust | B |
| Spent in a sudden storm of lust | B |
| A vapour fed from wild desire | F |
| A wand'ring self consuming fire | F |
| But Hymen's kinder flames unite | B |
| And burn for ever one | I |
| Chaste as cold Cynthia's virgin light | B |
| Productive as the Sun | I |
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| Semichorus | A |
| Oh source of ev'ry social tie | B |
| United wish and mutual joy | J |
| What various joys on one attend | B |
| As son as father brother husband friend | B |
| Whether his hoary sire he spies | A |
| While thousand grateful thoughts arise | A |
| Or meets his spouse's fonder eye | B |
| Or views his smiling progeny | K |
| What tender passions take their turns | A |
| What home felt raptures move | G |
| His heart now melts now leaps now burns | A |
| With rev'rence hope and love | H |
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| Chorus | A |
| Hence guilty joys distastes surmises | A |
| Hence false tears deceits disguises | A |
| Dangers doubts delays surprises | A |
| Fires that scorch yet dare not shine | L |
| Purest love's unwasting treasure | F |
| Constant faith fair hope long leisure | F |
| Days of ease and nights of pleasure | F |
| Sacred Hymen these are thine | L |
Alexander Pope
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