Three Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDECD FGFG HCHE GAGAABAB AGAG AGAG| LOVE thou art best of Human Joys | A |
| Our chiefest Happiness below | B |
| All other Pleasures are but Toys | A |
| Musick without Thee is but Noise | A |
| And Beauty but an empty Show | B |
| Heav'n who knew best what Man wou'd move | C |
| And raise his Thoughts above the Brute | D |
| Said Let him Be and let him Love | E |
| That must alone his Soul improve | C |
| Howe'er Philosophers dispute | D |
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| II | - |
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| Quickly Delia Learn my Passion | F |
| Lose not Pleasure to be Proud | G |
| Courtship draws on Observation | F |
| And the Whispers of the Croud | G |
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| Soon or late you'll hear a Lover | H |
| Nor by Time his Truth can prove | C |
| Ages won't a Heart discover | H |
| Trust and so secure my Love | E |
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| 'TIS strange this Heart within my breast | G |
| Reason opposing and her Pow'rs | A |
| Cannot one gentle Moment rest | G |
| Unless it knows what's done in Yours | A |
| In vain I ask it of your Eyes | A |
| Which subt'ly would my Fears controul | B |
| For Art has taught them to disguise | A |
| Which Nature made t' explain the Soul | B |
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| In vain that Sound your Voice affords | A |
| Flatters sometimes my easy Mind | G |
| But of too vast Extent are Words | A |
| In them the Jewel Truth to find | G |
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| Then let my fond Enquiries cease | A |
| And so let all my Troubles end | G |
| For sure that Heart shall ne'er know Peace | A |
| Which on Anothers do's depend | G |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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