To The Eye Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFAAGGHHII JJAAIIKKCC LLIIMNIIMM

THRONE of expression whence the spirit's rayA
Pours forth so oft the light of mental dayA
Where fancy's fire affection's melting beamB
Thought genius passion reign in turn supremeB
And many a feeling words can ne'er impartC
Finds its own language to pervade the heartC
Thy power bright orb what bosom hath not feltD
To thrill to rouse to fascinate to meltD
And by some spell of undefined controlE
With magnet influence touch the secret soulE
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Light of the features in the morn of youthF
Thy glance is nature and thy language truthF
And ere the world with all corrupting swayA
Hath taught e'en thee to flatter and betrayA
The ingenuous heart forbids thee to revealG
Or speak one thought that interest would concealG
While yet thou seem'st the cloudless mirror givenH
But to reflect the purity of heavenH
O then how lovely there unveil'd to traceI
The unsullied brightness of each mental graceI
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When Genius lends thee all his living lightJ
Where the full beams of intellect uniteJ
When love illumes thee with his varying rayA
Where trembling Hope and tearful Rapture playA
Or Pity's melting cloud thy beam subduesI
Tempering its lustre with a veil of dewsI
Still does thy power whose all commanding spellK
Can pierce the mazes of the soul so wellK
Bid some new feeling to existence startC
From its deep slumbers in the inmost heartC
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And O when thought in ecstacy sublimeL
That soars triumphant o'er the bounds of timeL
Fires thy keen glance with inspiration's blazeI
The light of heaven the hope of nobler daysI
As glorious dreams for utterance far too highM
Flash through the mist of dim mortalityN
Who does not own that through thy lightning beamsI
A flame unquenchable unearthly streamsI
That pure though captive effluence of the skyM
The vestal ray the spark that cannot dieM

Felicia Dorothea Hemans



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