To The Eye Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFAAGGHHII JJAAIIKKCC LLIIMNIIMM| THRONE of expression whence the spirit's ray | A |
| Pours forth so oft the light of mental day | A |
| Where fancy's fire affection's melting beam | B |
| Thought genius passion reign in turn supreme | B |
| And many a feeling words can ne'er impart | C |
| Finds its own language to pervade the heart | C |
| Thy power bright orb what bosom hath not felt | D |
| To thrill to rouse to fascinate to melt | D |
| And by some spell of undefined control | E |
| With magnet influence touch the secret soul | E |
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| Light of the features in the morn of youth | F |
| Thy glance is nature and thy language truth | F |
| And ere the world with all corrupting sway | A |
| Hath taught e'en thee to flatter and betray | A |
| The ingenuous heart forbids thee to reveal | G |
| Or speak one thought that interest would conceal | G |
| While yet thou seem'st the cloudless mirror given | H |
| But to reflect the purity of heaven | H |
| O then how lovely there unveil'd to trace | I |
| The unsullied brightness of each mental grace | I |
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| When Genius lends thee all his living light | J |
| Where the full beams of intellect unite | J |
| When love illumes thee with his varying ray | A |
| Where trembling Hope and tearful Rapture play | A |
| Or Pity's melting cloud thy beam subdues | I |
| Tempering its lustre with a veil of dews | I |
| Still does thy power whose all commanding spell | K |
| Can pierce the mazes of the soul so well | K |
| Bid some new feeling to existence start | C |
| From its deep slumbers in the inmost heart | C |
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| And O when thought in ecstacy sublime | L |
| That soars triumphant o'er the bounds of time | L |
| Fires thy keen glance with inspiration's blaze | I |
| The light of heaven the hope of nobler days | I |
| As glorious dreams for utterance far too high | M |
| Flash through the mist of dim mortality | N |
| Who does not own that through thy lightning beams | I |
| A flame unquenchable unearthly streams | I |
| That pure though captive effluence of the sky | M |
| The vestal ray the spark that cannot die | M |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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