Music's Empire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HIJJ KKLM GGNN| First was the world as one great cymbal made | A |
| Where jarring winds to infant Nature played | A |
| All music was a solitary sound | B |
| To hollow rocks and murm'ring fountains bound | B |
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| Jubal first made the wilder notes agree | C |
| And Jubal tuned music's Jubilee | C |
| He call'd the echoes from their sullen cell | D |
| And built the organ's city where they dwell | D |
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| Each sought a consort in that lovely place | E |
| And virgin trebles wed the manly bass | F |
| From whence the progeny of numbers new | G |
| Into harmonious colonies withdrew | G |
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| Some to the lute some to the viol went | H |
| And others chose the cornet eloquent | I |
| These practicing the wind and those the wire | J |
| To sing men's triumphs or in Heaven's choir | J |
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| Then music the mosaic of the air | K |
| Did of all these a solemn noise prepare | K |
| With which she gain'd the empire of the ear | L |
| Including all between the earth and sphere | M |
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| Victorious sounds yet here your homage do | G |
| Unto a gentler conqueror than you | G |
| Who though he flies the music of his praise | N |
| Would with you Heaven's Hallelujahs raise | N |
Andrew Marvell
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