Socrates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHGHIJKELM| Night is fair Virtue's immemorial friend | A |
| The conscious moon through every distant age | B |
| Has held a lamp to Wisdom and let fall | C |
| On Contemplation's eye her purging ray | D |
| The famed Athenian he who wooed from heaven | E |
| Philosophy the fair to dwell with men | F |
| And form their manners not inflame their pride | G |
| While o'er his head as fearful to molest | H |
| His laboring mind the stars in silence slide | G |
| And seem all gazing on their future guest | H |
| See him soliciting his ardent suit | I |
| In private audience all the livelong night | J |
| Rigid in thought and motionless he stands | K |
| Nor quits his theme or posture till the sun | E |
| Disturbs his nobler intellectual beam | L |
| And gives him to the tumult of the world | M |
Edward Young
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