Free Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DEDE FGGG GHGH IJIJ KLML INIO DPDP QCQC RDRD CSCS| Joy Free at last from vulgar thrall | A |
| No longer need my voice be dumb | B |
| And quicker far than thou canst call | A |
| O Italy I come | B |
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| To feel me the adopted heir | C |
| Of Art and Nature wed and blent | D |
| In days of trouble routed care | C |
| In these will bring content | D |
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| To know the world is not a mart | D |
| The soul a lackey life a shame | E |
| Will scare the past allay its smart | D |
| Almost annul the blame | E |
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| Away with all these makeshift toys | F |
| Provisional for heart and sense | G |
| Which kept a useful equipoise | G |
| 'Gainst sheer indifference | G |
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| 'Twas well enough whilst ill at ease | G |
| To parley with each passing whim | H |
| Which though accredited to please | G |
| Was pleasure's pseudonym | H |
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| And if one pleasure lure me still | I |
| Just one I scarcely can but thank | J |
| 'Twere wisdom not to linger till | I |
| It like the rest be rank | J |
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| Bear me rough breakers swiftly on | K |
| Yield mist wrapped mountains passage through | L |
| I fret I fever to be gone | M |
| To skies and waters blue | L |
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| Where loosed from trammels one may still | I |
| Complete the functions fettered here | N |
| Heart unsuborned unbiassed will | I |
| And intellect sincere | O |
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| My senses with my spirit meet | D |
| To urge me from this northern soil | P |
| Ere stealthy Winter's ambushed sleet | D |
| Swoop on autumnal spoil | P |
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| The sickle hath performed its work | Q |
| The storm gusts sweep the aspens bare | C |
| Careering clouds and shadows mirk | Q |
| Cow the disheartened air | C |
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| No swallow circles round the roof | R |
| No chirp redeems the dripping shed | D |
| The very gables frown reproof | R |
| Why not already fled | D |
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| I fly Decked forms and landscape bare | C |
| Enticements robbed of every spell | S |
| Frivolities no longer fair | C |
| Ye bubbles all farewell | S |
Alfred Austin
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