Sound And Sense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGTrue 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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