Sonnet Lxxviii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD A| Sophia tempts me to her social walls | A |
| That 'mid the vast Metropolis arise | B |
| Where Splendor dazzles and each Pleasure vies | B |
| In soft allurement and each Science calls | A |
| To philosophic Domes harmonious Halls | A |
| And storied Galleries With duteous sighs | B |
| Filial and kind and with averted eyes | B |
| I meet the gay temptation as it falls | A |
| From a seducing pen Here here I stay | C |
| Fix'd by Affection's power nor entertain | D |
| One latent wish that might persuade to stray | C |
| From my ag'd Nurseling in his life's dim wane | D |
| But like the needle by the magnet's sway | C |
| My constant trembling residence maintain | D |
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| And storied windows richly dight IL PENSEROSO | A |
Anna Seward
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