Pleasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDF GHGH IJIJ KLKL IMIM NONO PQPQ NNRN SHSH TNTN| A Short Poem or Else Not Say I | A |
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| True pleasure breathes not city air | B |
| Nor in Art's temples dwells | C |
| In palaces and towers where | B |
| The voice of Grandeur dwells | C |
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| No Seek it where high Nature holds | D |
| Her court 'mid stately groves | E |
| Where she her majesty unfolds | D |
| And in fresh beauty moves | F |
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| Where thousand birds of sweetest song | G |
| The wildly rushing storm | H |
| And hundred streams which glide along | G |
| Her mighty concert form | H |
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| Go where the woods in beauty sleep | I |
| Bathed in pale Luna's light | J |
| Or where among their branches sweep | I |
| The hollow sounds of night | J |
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| Go where the warbling nightingale | K |
| In gushes rich doth sing | L |
| Till all the lonely quiet vale | K |
| With melody doth ring | L |
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| Go sit upon a mountain steep | I |
| And view the prospect round | M |
| The hills and vales the valley's sweep | I |
| The far horizon bound | M |
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| Then view the wide sky overhead | N |
| The still deep vault of blue | O |
| The sun which golden light doth shed | N |
| The clouds of pearly hue | O |
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| And as you gaze on this vast scene | P |
| Your thoughts will journey far | Q |
| Though hundred years should roll between | P |
| On Time's swift passing car | Q |
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| To ages when the earth was yound | N |
| When patriarchs grey and old | N |
| The praises of their god oft sung | R |
| And oft his mercies told | N |
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| You see them with their beards of snow | S |
| Their robes of ample form | H |
| Their lives whose peaceful gentle flow | S |
| Felt seldom passion's storm | H |
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| Then a calm solemn pleasure steals | T |
| Into your inmost mind | N |
| A quiet aura your spirit feels | T |
| A softened stillness kind | N |
Charlotte Bronte
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