A Letter To The Same Person Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FGAA AAHI AAAAJKAALLAA| Sure of Success to You I boldly write | A |
| Whilst Love do's ev'ry tender Line endite | A |
| Love who is justly President of Verse | B |
| Which all his Servants write or else rehearse | B |
| Phoebus howe'er mistaken Poets dream | C |
| Ne'er us'd a Verse till Love became his Theme | C |
| To his stray'd Son still as his Passion rose | D |
| He rais'd his hasty Voice in clam'rous Prose | D |
| But when in Daphne he wou'd Love inspire | E |
| He woo'd in Verse set to his silver Lyre | E |
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| The Trojan Prince did pow'rful Numbers join | F |
| To sing of War but Love was the Design | G |
| And sleeping Troy again in Flames was drest | A |
| To light the Fires in pitying Dido's Breast | A |
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| Love without Poetry's refining Aid | A |
| Is a dull Bargain and but coarsely made | A |
| Nor e'er cou'd Poetry successful prove | H |
| Or touch the Soul but when the Sense was Love | I |
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| Oh cou'd they both in Absence now impart | A |
| Skill to my Hand but to describe my Heart | A |
| Then shou'd you see impatient of your Stay | A |
| Soft Hopes contend with Fears of sad Delay | A |
| Love in a thousand fond Endearments there | J |
| And lively Images of You appear | K |
| But since the Thoughts of a Poetick Mind | A |
| Will never be to Syllables confin'd | A |
| And whilst to fix what is conceiv'd we try | L |
| The purer Parts evaporate and dye | L |
| You must perform what they want force to do | A |
| And think what your ARDELIA thinks of you | A |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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