The Angel In The House. Book Ii. Canto Ix. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDEFEFGHGHIBIB JJHJHKDKDLMLMNBNB OPQPQ R LLSLSTUTUVWVWXLXB LYZA2B2C2D2C2D2 LE2F2E2F2G2H2G2H2 XI2J2I2J2JK2JK2L2M2L 2F2N2JO2JK2C2K2C2P2C 2Q2C2R2S2R2S2 XC2T2C2Q2JU2JU2Preludes | A |
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I The Nursling of Civility | B |
Lo how the woman once was woo'd | C |
Forth leapt the savage from his lair | D |
And fell'd her and to nuptials rude | C |
He dragg'd her bleeding by the hair | D |
From that to Chloe's dainty wiles | E |
And Portia's dignified consent | F |
What distance But these Pagan styles | E |
How far below Time's fair intent | F |
Siegfried sued Kriemhild Sweeter life | G |
Could Love's self covet Yet 'tis sung | H |
In what rough sort he chid his wife | G |
For want of curb upon her tongue | H |
Shall Love where last I leave him halt | I |
Nay none can fancy or foresee | B |
To how strange bliss may time exalt | I |
This nursling of civility | B |
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II The Foreign Land | J |
A woman is a foreign land | J |
Of which though there he settle young | H |
A man will ne'er quite understand | J |
The customs politics and tongue | H |
The foolish hie them post haste through | K |
See fashions odd and prospects fair | D |
Learn of the language How d'ye do | K |
And go and brag they have been there | D |
The most for leave to trade apply | L |
For once at Empire's seat her heart | M |
Then get what knowledge ear and eye | L |
Glean chancewise in the life long mart | M |
And certain others few and fit | N |
Attach them to the Court and see | B |
The Country's best its accent hit | N |
And partly sound its polity | B |
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III Disappointment | O |
The bliss which woman's charms bespeak | P |
I've sought in many found in none | Q |
In many 'tis in vain you seek | P |
What can be found in only one | Q |
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The Friends | R |
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I | L |
Frank's long dull letter lying by | L |
The gay sash from Honoria's waist | S |
Reproach'd me passion spared a sigh | L |
For friendship without fault disgraced | S |
How should I greet him how pretend | T |
I felt the love he once inspired | U |
Time was when either in his friend | T |
His own deserts with joy admired | U |
We took one side in school debate | V |
Like hopes pursued with equal thirst | W |
Were even bracketed by Fate | V |
Twin Wranglers seventh from the First | W |
And either loved a lady's laugh | X |
More than all music he and I | L |
Were perfect in the pleasant half | X |
Of universal charity | B |
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II | L |
From pride of likeness thus I loved | Y |
Him and he me till love begot | Z |
The lowliness which now approved | A2 |
Nothing but that which I was not | B2 |
Blest was the pride of feeling so | C2 |
Subjected to a girl's soft reign | D2 |
She was my vanity and oh | C2 |
All other vanities how vain | D2 |
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III | L |
Frank follow'd in his letter's track | E2 |
And set my guilty heart at ease | F2 |
By echoing my excuses back | E2 |
With just the same apologies | F2 |
So he had slighted me as well | G2 |
Nor was my mind disburthen'd less | H2 |
When what I sought excuse to tell | G2 |
He of himself did first confess | H2 |
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IV | X |
Each rapturous praised his lady's worth | I2 |
He eloquently thus Her face | J2 |
Is the summ'd sweetness of the earth | I2 |
Her soul the glass of heaven's grace | J2 |
To which she leads me by the hand | J |
Or briefly all the truth to say | K2 |
To you who briefly understand | J |
She is both heaven and the way | K2 |
Displeasures and resentments pass | L2 |
Athwart her charitable eyes | M2 |
More fleetingly than breath from glass | L2 |
Or truth from foolish memories | F2 |
Her heart's so touch'd with others' woes | N2 |
She has no need of chastisement | J |
Her gentle life's conditions close | O2 |
Like God's commandments with content | J |
And make an aspect calm and gay | K2 |
Where sweet affections come and go | C2 |
Till all who see her smile and say | K2 |
How fair and happy that she's so | C2 |
She is so lovely true and pure | P2 |
Her virtue virtue so endears | C2 |
That often when I think of her | Q2 |
Life's meanness fills mine eyes with tears | C2 |
You paint Miss Churchill Pray go on | R2 |
She's perfect and if joy was much | S2 |
To think her nature's paragon | R2 |
'Tis more that there's another such | S2 |
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V | X |
Praising and paying back their praise | C2 |
With rapturous hearts t'ward Sarum Spire | T2 |
We walk'd in evening's golden haze | C2 |
Friendship from passion stealing fire | Q2 |
In joy's crown danced the feather jest | J |
And parting by the Deanery door | U2 |
Clasp'd hands less shy than words confess'd | J |
We had not been true friends before | U2 |
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