Laura Matilda's Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB CDCD CECF GHGH IJIJ KLKL BMBM K CNGO FCKG CGGG FGPG OOGO CGCC FCFF| FROM 'REJECTED ADDRESSES ' | A |
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| Balmy Zephyrs lightly flitting | B |
| Shade me with your azure wing | B |
| On Parnassus' summit sitting | B |
| Aid me Clio while I sing | B |
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| Softly slept the dome of Drury | C |
| O'er the empyreal crest | D |
| When Alecto's sister fury | C |
| Softly slumb'ring sunk to rest | D |
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| Lo from Lemnos limping lamely | C |
| Lags the lowly Lord of Fire | E |
| Cytherea yielding tamely | C |
| To the Cyclops dark and dire | F |
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| Clouds of amber dreams of gladness | G |
| Dulcet joys and sports of youth | H |
| Soon must yield to haughty sadness | G |
| Mercy holds the veil to Truth | H |
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| See Erostratas the second | I |
| Fires again Diana's fane | J |
| By the Fates from Orcus beckon'd | I |
| Clouds envelop Drury Lane | J |
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| Where is Cupid's crimson motion | K |
| Billowy ecstasy of woe | L |
| Bear me straight meandering ocean | K |
| Where the stagnant torrents flow | L |
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| Blood in every vein is gushing | B |
| Vixen vengeance lulls my heart | M |
| See the Gorgon gang is rushing | B |
| Never never let us part | M |
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| NAENIA | K |
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| O quot odoriferi voitatis in aere venti | C |
| Caeruleum tegmen vestra sit ala mihi | N |
| Tuque sedens Parnassus ubi caput erigit ingens | G |
| Dextra veni Clio teque docente canam | O |
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| Jam suaves somnos Tholus affectare Theatri | F |
| Coeperat igniflui trans laqueare poli | C |
| Alectus consanguineam quo tempore Erinnyn | K |
| Suave soporatam coepit adire quies | G |
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| Lustra sed ecce labans claudo pede Lemnia linquit | C |
| Luridus at lente lugubriterque Deus | G |
| Amisit veteres amisit inultus amores | G |
| Teter habet Venerem terribilisque Cyclops | G |
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| Electri nebulas potioraque somnia vero | F |
| Quotque placent pueris gaudia quotque joci | G |
| Omnia tristiae fas concessisse superbae | P |
| Admissum Pietas scitque premitque nefas | G |
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| Respice Nonne vides ut Erostratus alter ad aedem | O |
| Rursus agat flammas spreta Diana tuam | O |
| Mox Acheronteis quas Parca eduxit ab antris | G |
| Druriacam nubes corripuere domum | O |
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| O ubi purpurei motus pueri alitis o qui | C |
| Me mihi turbineis surripis angor aquis | G |
| Duc labyrintheum duc me mare tramite recto | C |
| Quo rapidi fontes pigra caterva ruunt | C |
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| Jamque soporat enim pectus Vindicta Virago | F |
| Omnibus a venis sanguinis unda salit | C |
| Gorgoneique greges praeceps adverte feruntur | F |
| Sim precor o semper sim tibi junctus ego | F |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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