Sonnet Lxxiv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBABBBBCD E| In sultry noon when youthful MILTON lay | A |
| Supinely stretch'd beneath the poplar shade | B |
| Lur'd by his Form a fair Italian Maid | B |
| Steals from her loitering chariot to survey | A |
| The slumbering charms that all her soul betray | A |
| Then as coy fears th' admiring gaze upbraid | B |
| Starts and these lines with hurried pen pourtray'd | B |
| Slides in his half clos'd hand and speeds away | A |
| Ye eyes ye human stars if thus conceal'd | B |
| By Sleep's soft veil ye agitate my heart | B |
| Ah what had been its conflict if reveal'd | B |
| Your rays had shone Bright Nymph thy strains impart | B |
| Hopes that impel the graceful Bard to rove | C |
| Seeking thro' Tuscan Vales his visionary Love | D |
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| This romantic circumstance of our great Poet's juvenility was inserted as a well known fact in one of the General Evening Posts in the Spring and it was there supposed to have formed the first impulse of his Italian journey | E |
Anna Seward
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