An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DDEEE AFGGFHIJJKKLMM ANI | A |
Arise my Dove from mid'st of Pots arise | B |
Thy sully'd Habitation leave | C |
To Dust no longer cleave | C |
Unworthy they of Heaven that will not view the Skies | B |
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Thy native Beauty re assume | D |
Prune each neglected Plume | D |
Till more than Silver white | E |
Then burnisht Gold more bright | E |
Thus ever ready stand to take thy Eternal Flight | E |
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II | A |
The Bird to whom the spacious Aire was given | F |
As in a smooth and trackless Path to go | G |
A Walk which does no Limits know | G |
Pervious alone to Her and Heaven | F |
Should she her Airy Race forget | H |
On Earth affect to walk and sit | I |
Should she so high a Priviledge neglect | J |
As still on Earth to walk and sit affect | J |
What could she of Wrong complain | K |
Who thus her Birdly Kind doth stain | K |
If all her Feathers moulted were | L |
And naked she were left and bare | M |
The Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire | M |
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III | A |
The Bird of Paradice the Soul | N |
Anne Killigrew
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