Sonnet Lx.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABABCACACA A| Why view'st thou Edwy with disdainful mien | A |
| The little Naiad of the Downton Wave | B |
| High 'mid the rocks where her clear waters lave | B |
| The circling gloomy basin In such scene | A |
| Silent sequester'd few demand I ween | A |
| That last perfection Phidian chisels gave | B |
| Dimly the soft and musing Form is seen | A |
| In the hush'd shelly shadowy lone concave | B |
| As sleeps her pure tho' darkling fountain there | C |
| I love to recollect her stretch'd supine | A |
| Upon its mossy brink with pendent hair | C |
| As dripping o'er the flood Ah well combine | A |
| Such gentle graces modest pensive fair | C |
| To aid the magic of her watry shrine | A |
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| The above Sonnet was addressed to a Friend who had fastidiously despised because he did not think it exquisite sculpture the Statue of a Water Nymph in Mr Knight's singular and beautiful Cold Bath at Downton Castle near Ludlow It rises amidst a Rotunda formed by Rocks and covered with shells and fossils in the highest elevation of that mountainous and romantic Scene | A |
Anna Seward
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