The Swan - Vain Pleasures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| The Swan which boasted mid the tide | A |
| Whose nest was guarded by the wave | B |
| Floated for pleasure till she died | A |
| And sunk beneath the flood to lave | B |
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| The bird of fashion drops her wing | C |
| The rose bush now declines to bloom | D |
| The gentle breezes of the spring | C |
| No longer waft a sweet perfume | D |
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| Fair beauty with those lovely eyes | E |
| Withers along her vital stream | F |
| Proud fortune leaves her throne and flies | E |
| From pleasure as a flattering dream | F |
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| The eagle of exalted fame | G |
| Which spreads his pinions far to sail | H |
| Struggled to fan his dying flame | G |
| Till pleasure pall'd in every gale | H |
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| And gaudy mammon sordid gain | I |
| Whose plume has faded once so gay | J |
| Languishes mid her flowery train | I |
| Whilst pleasure flies like fumes away | J |
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| Vain pleasures O how short to last | K |
| Like leaves which quick to ashes burn | L |
| Which kindle from the slightest blast | K |
| And slight to nothing hence return | L |
George Moses Horton
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