To The Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEEFFFD GGHIJKKLMMBB NNOPQQRRQQ| Exert thy Voice sweet Harbinger of Spring | A |
| This Moment is thy Time to sing | A |
| This Moment I attend to Praise | B |
| And set my Numbers to thy Layes | B |
| Free as thine shall be my Song | C |
| As thy Musick short or long | C |
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| Poets wild as thee were born | D |
| Pleasing best when unconfin'd | E |
| When to Please is least design'd | E |
| Soothing but their Cares to rest | F |
| Cares do still their Thoughts molest | F |
| And still th' unhappy Poet's Breast | F |
| Like thine when best he sings is plac'd against a Thorn | D |
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| She begins Let all be still | G |
| Muse thy Promise now fulfill | G |
| Sweet oh sweet still sweeter yet | H |
| Can thy Words such Accents fit | I |
| Canst thou Syllables refine | J |
| Melt a Sense that shall retain | K |
| Still some Spirit of the Brain | K |
| Till with Sounds like these it join | L |
| 'Twill not be then change thy Note | M |
| Let division shake thy Throat | M |
| Hark Division now she tries | B |
| Yet as far the Muse outflies | B |
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| Cease then prithee cease thy Tune | N |
| Trifler wilt thou sing till June | N |
| Till thy Bus'ness all lies waste | O |
| And the Time of Building's past | P |
| Thus we Poets that have Speech | Q |
| Unlike what thy Forests teach | Q |
| If a fluent Vein be shown | R |
| That's transcendant to our own | R |
| Criticize reform or preach | Q |
| Or censure what we cannot reach | Q |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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