A Precious'mouldering Pleasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFH IJKL MLNL ODPD QRST UVWVA | |
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A precious mouldering pleasure 'tis | B |
To meet an Antique Book | C |
In just the Dress his Century wore | D |
A privilege I think | E |
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His venerable Hand to take | F |
And warming in our own | G |
A passage back or two to make | F |
To Times when he was young | H |
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His quaint opinions to inspect | I |
His thought to ascertain | J |
On Themes concern our mutual mind | K |
The Literature of Man | L |
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What interested Scholars most | M |
What Competitions ran | L |
When Plato was a Certainty | N |
And Sophocles a Man | L |
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When Sappho was a living Girl | O |
And Beatrice wore | D |
The Gown that Dante deified | P |
Facts Centuries before | D |
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He traverses familiar | Q |
As One should come to Town | R |
And tell you all your Dreams were true | S |
He lived where Dreams were born | T |
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His presence is Enchantment | U |
You beg him not to go | V |
Old Volume shake their Vellum Heads | W |
And tantalize just so | V |
Emily Dickinson
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