Song, By A Person Of Quality, Written In The Year 1733 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA CDCD AEAF AAAA GAGA FHFH CICI| Fluttering spread thy purple pinions | A |
| Gentle Cupid o'er my heart | B |
| I a slave in thy dominions | A |
| Nature must give way to art | B |
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| Mild Arcadians ever blooming | C |
| Nightly nodding o'er your flocks | A |
| See my weary days consuming | C |
| All beneath yon flowery rocks | A |
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| Thus the Cyprian goddess weeping | C |
| Mourn'd Adonis darling youth | D |
| Him the boar in silence creeping | C |
| Gored with unrelenting tooth | D |
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| Cynthia tune harmonious numbers | A |
| Fair Discretion string the lyre | E |
| Soothe my ever waking slumbers | A |
| Bright Apollo lend thy choir | F |
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| Gloomy Pluto king of terrors | A |
| Arm'd in adamantine chains | A |
| Lead me to the crystal mirrors | A |
| Watering soft Elysian plains | A |
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| Mournful cypress verdant willow | G |
| Gilding my Aurelia's brows | A |
| Morpheus hovering o'er my pillow | G |
| Hear me pay my dying vows | A |
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| Melancholy smooth Maeander | F |
| Swiftly purling in a round | H |
| On thy margin lovers wander | F |
| With thy flowery chaplets crown'd | H |
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| Thus when Philomela drooping | C |
| Softly seeks her silent mate | I |
| See the bird of Juno stooping | C |
| Melody resigns to fate | I |
Alexander Pope
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