Address To Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHIHJJ EKAKLL MNENCCOH thou whose soft bewitching lyre | A |
Can lull the sting of pain to rest | B |
Oh thou whose warbling notes inspire | A |
The pensive muse with visions blest | B |
Sweet music let thy melting airs | C |
Enhance my joys and sooth my cares | C |
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Is there enchantment in thy voice | D |
Thy dulcet harp thy moving measure | E |
To bid the mournful mind rejoice | D |
To raise the fairy form of pleasure | E |
Yes heav'nly maid a charm is thine | F |
A magic art a spell divine | F |
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Sweet music when thy notes we hear | G |
Some dear remembrance oft they bring | H |
Of friends belov'd no longer near | I |
And days that flew on rapture's wing | H |
Hours of delight that long are past | J |
And dreams of joy too bright to last | J |
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And oft 'tis thine the soul to fire | E |
With glory's animating flame | K |
Bid valor's noble sons aspire | A |
To win th' immortal wreath of fame | K |
Thine too the soft expressive tones | L |
That pity tender pity owns | L |
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Oh harmony celestial pow'r | M |
Thou syren of the melting soul | N |
In sorrow's reign in pleasure's hour | E |
My heart shall own thy blest control | N |
And ever let thy moving airs | C |
Enhance my joys and sooth my cares | C |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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