Sound And Sense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG| True ease in writing comes from art not chance | A |
| As those move easiest who have learned to dance | A |
| 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense | B |
| The sound must seem an echo to the sense | B |
| Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows | C |
| And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows | C |
| But when loud surges lash the sounding shore | D |
| The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar | D |
| When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw | E |
| The line too labors and the words move slow | E |
| Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain | F |
| Flies o'er the unbending corn and skims along the main | F |
| Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise | G |
| And bid alternate passions fall and rise | G |
Alexander Pope
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