To A Young Lady, On Being Too Fond Of Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBF GHGH IJIJ BBBB BEBE BKBK LBLB MNMN| Why is your mind thus all day long | A |
| Upon your music set | B |
| Till reason's swallowed in a song | A |
| Or idle canzonet | B |
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| I grant you Melesinda when | C |
| Your instrument was new | D |
| I was well pleased to see you then | C |
| Its charms assiduous woo | D |
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| The rudiments of any art | B |
| Or mastery that we try | E |
| Are only on the learner's part | B |
| Got by hard industry | F |
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| But you are past your first essays | G |
| Whene'er you play your touch | H |
| Skilful and light ensures you praise | G |
| All beyond that's too much | H |
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| Music's sweet uses are to smooth | I |
| Each rough and angry passion | J |
| To elevate at once and soothe | I |
| A heavenly recreation | J |
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| But we misconstrue and defeat | B |
| The end of any good | B |
| When what should be our casual treat | B |
| We make our constant food | B |
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| While to the exclusion of the rest | B |
| This single art you ply | E |
| Your nobler studies are supprest | B |
| Your books neglected lie | E |
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| Could you in what you so affect | B |
| The utmost summit reach | K |
| Beyond what fondest friends expect | B |
| Or skilfullest masters teach | K |
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| The skill you learned would not repay | L |
| The time and pains it cost | B |
| Youth's precious season thrown away | L |
| And reading leisure lost | B |
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| A benefit to books we owe | M |
| Music can ne'er dispense | N |
| The one does only sound bestow | M |
| The other gives us sense | N |
Charles Lamb
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