Ode To Cheerfulness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCCDDEE EEFFGG BGBGHEHE EIEI EJEJ JEJ EKEK LCLLC GMGGM| LOVELY nymph with eye serene | A |
| Dimpled smile and frolic mien | A |
| Come with airy step advancing | B |
| Come with blooming Hebe dancing | B |
| O'er the meads I see thee straying | B |
| Youth and sport around thee playing | B |
| Gay content thy sister fair | C |
| Twines a garland round thy hair | C |
| Thine the lip of roseate dye | D |
| Thine the pleasure sparkling eye | D |
| Thine the cheek that softly glows | E |
| Brighter than the blushing rose | E |
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| Guide me to thy fav'rite bow'rs | E |
| To deck thy rural shrine with flow'rs | E |
| In thy lowly sylvan cell | F |
| Peace and virtue love to dwell | F |
| Ever let me own thy sway | G |
| Still to thee my tribute pay | G |
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| When Zephyr waves his balmy wing | B |
| To kiss the sweets of May | G |
| When the soft melodies of spring | B |
| Resound from ev'ry spray | G |
| With thee sweet maid I'll rove along | H |
| And tread the morning dews | E |
| To hear the wood lark's early song | H |
| To court the laughing muse | E |
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| With thee I'll rove when summer pours | E |
| Her treasures o'er the land | I |
| When fair Pomona sheds her stores | E |
| With kind luxuriant hand | I |
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| When Autumn bearing golden sheaves | E |
| Delights the happy swain | J |
| And softly paints the fading leaves | E |
| And crowns the fertile plain | J |
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| And e'en in winter's hoary reign | J |
| I'll wake my festive lays | E |
| Thy look shall prompt th' enliv'ning strain | J |
| And 'brighten at the blaze ' | - |
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| I court thee in the vernal hours | E |
| Of life's enchanting morn | K |
| Thy hand shall strew my path with flow'rs | E |
| And steal away the thorn | K |
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| But when the dawn of youth is fled | L |
| The spring of life so fair | C |
| Ah wilt thou then benignly shed | L |
| Thy placid beams around my head | L |
| And steal my thoughts from care | C |
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| Yes gentle pow'r thy heav'nly ray | G |
| Shall cheer my morning bright | M |
| And e'en in life's declining day | G |
| Shall gild the dark and thorny way | G |
| With mild celestial light | M |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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