The Moon And The Comet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEF GGHHIIJJKKLMNOPQRRSS SSSSSSTTRRUUVVWWX SS SSSSSSBBSS YYSSSSZZA2A2| This fact is clear Both man and woman | A |
| Prize not what's good but what's uncommon | A |
| And most delighted still they are | B |
| Not with the excellent but rare | C |
| I could of this give proofs most stable | D |
| But par exemple take a fable | D |
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| 'T was night but still a mimic day | E |
| Shone softly forth from milky way | E |
| For now the bright unclouded moon | F |
| 'Was riding in her highest noon ' | - |
| Who as she slowly sailed along | G |
| Beheld a most unusual throng | G |
| With eyes upraised devoutly gazing | H |
| And heard Behold see there amazing | H |
| What can this mean dame Cynthia said | I |
| Perhaps and high she drew her head | I |
| Perhaps that I to earth tonight | J |
| Shine with unwonted beauty bright | J |
| And therefore mortals in amaze | K |
| Come crowding forth on me to gaze | K |
| And then for heavenly beauties love | L |
| Like earthly ones applause to move | M |
| She stooped within a lake below | N |
| To see how looked her sparkling brow | O |
| And as her crescent she adjusted | P |
| She thought if mirrors might be trusted | Q |
| That night so wondrous was her beauty | R |
| To gaze on her was mortals' duty | R |
| But O sad fall to female pride | S |
| She soon with wondering looks descried | S |
| 'Twas not on her that eyes were turned | S |
| For her no curious ardour burned | S |
| At her no telescopes were aimed | S |
| Nor wonder at her charms proclaimed | S |
| Some other idol now she found | S |
| Had fickle man in fetters bound | S |
| And Cynthia was compelled to own | T |
| Unseen her matchless beauty shone | T |
| But what she cried thus rivals me | R |
| I all the stars and planets see | R |
| Orion has his belt in order | U |
| Of Saturn's ring bright shines the border | U |
| Mars sports his coat of reddest hue | V |
| The Bear has put his horses to | V |
| But still these sights so oft are seen | W |
| There's nothing new in them I ween | W |
| And after all I know the cry | X |
| Is 'they are nought when I am by ' | - |
| 'Tis strange and I shall surely pout | S |
| Until I've found my rival out | S |
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| This said she looked on every side | S |
| With eager looks of wounded pride | S |
| And round with all the spite inspected | S |
| Of conscious beauty quite neglected | S |
| When lo she saw with wondring breast | S |
| Just twinkling in the northern west | S |
| And dimly seen since seen from far | B |
| A rayless misty long tailed star | B |
| While homage from her charms was ravished | S |
| To be on this poor Comet lavished | S |
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| W k e beware Though amateurs | Y |
| And nobles artists connoisseurs | Y |
| Thy works admire thy skill commend | S |
| And smiling o'er thy canvass bend | S |
| Thy powers will be no more respected | S |
| Thy crowded easel soon neglected | S |
| If ever artist should appear | Z |
| The comet of dame fashion's sphere | Z |
| Who works to wondering London shows | A2 |
| Not done with fingers but with toes | A2 |
Amelia Opie
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