A Precious-mouldering Pleasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFH IJKL MLNL ODPD QRST UVWV| A | |
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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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