To Mr Gay, Who Had Congratulated Pope On Finishing His House And Gardens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEFGGH| 'Ah friend 'tis true this truth you lovers know | A |
| In vain my structures rise my gardens grow | A |
| In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes | B |
| Of hanging mountains and of sloping greens | B |
| Joy lives not here to happier seats it flies | C |
| And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes | C |
| - | |
| 'What are the gay parterre the chequer'd shade | D |
| The morning bower the evening colonnade | D |
| But soft recesses of uneasy minds | E |
| To sigh unheard in to the passing winds | F |
| So the struck deer in some sequester'd part | G |
| Lies down to die the arrow at his heart | G |
| He stretch'd unseen in coverts hid from day | H |
| Bleeds drop by drop and pants his life away ' | - |
Alexander Pope
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