Sonnet Lxxix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCEFF| While unsuspecting trust in all that wears | A |
| Virtue's bright semblance stimulates my heart | B |
| To find its dearest pleasures in the part | B |
| Taken in other's joys yielding to theirs | A |
| Its own desires each latent wish that bears | A |
| The selfish stamp O let me shun the art | B |
| Taught by smooth Flattery in her courtly mart | B |
| Where Simulation's studied smile ensnares | A |
| Scorn that exterior varnish for the Mind | C |
| Which while it polishes the manners veils | D |
| In showy clouds the soul E'en thus we find | C |
| Glass o'er whose surface clear the pencil steals | E |
| Grown less transparent tho' with colours gay | F |
| Sheds but the darken'd and ambiguous ray | F |
Anna Seward
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