Song, By A Person Of Quality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC ADBDB ADEDE FBGBH FBBBB FIBIB FHJHJ FDKDK| I | A |
| Flutt'ring spread thy purple Pinions | B |
| Gentle Cupid o'er my Heart | C |
| I a Slave in thy Dominions | B |
| Nature must give Way to Art | C |
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| II | A |
| Mild Arcadians ever blooming | D |
| Nightly nodding o'er your Flocks | B |
| See my weary Days consuming | D |
| All beneath yon flow'ry Rocks | B |
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| III | A |
| Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping | D |
| Mourn'd Adonis darling Youth | E |
| Him the Boar in Silence creeping | D |
| Gor'd with unrelenting Tooth | E |
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| IV | F |
| Cynthia tune harmonious Numbers | B |
| Fair Discretion string the Lyre | G |
| Sooth my ever waking Slumbers | B |
| Bright Apollo lend thy Choir | H |
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| V | F |
| Gloomy Pluto King of Terrors | B |
| Arm'd in adamantine Chains | B |
| Lead me to the Crystal Mirrors | B |
| Wat'ring soft Elysian Plains | B |
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| VI | F |
| Mournful Cypress verdant Willow | I |
| Gilding my Aurelia's Brows | B |
| Morpheus hov'ring o'er my Pillow | I |
| Hear me pay my dying Vows | B |
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| VII | F |
| Melancholy smooth Maeander | H |
| Swiftly purling in a Round | J |
| On thy Margin Lovers wander | H |
| With thy flow'ry Chaplets crown'd | J |
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| VIII | F |
| Thus when Philomela drooping | D |
| Softly seeks her silent Mate | K |
| See the Bird of Juno stooping | D |
| Melody resigns to Fate | K |
Alexander Pope
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