An Address To Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEED A FEGEHIIH A JKJKDFKD B LELEMNNM B DHDHEEEE H JBJBDBDB B BOBOHEEH B PQRSKBBK O OEOEEOOE O EEEEHTTH O KBKBUBBU O VHVHLEEL O EOEOEEEE B KEKEWEEX B DODOEOOE B XOXOEYYE B XEXEOOOO B EDEDOZZO O MXMXOOOO O DXDXBBBB O XOXOHA2A2H O OHOHXHHX O DEDEBEEB B JDJDREEP B EOEOPJI | A |
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While envious crowds the summit view | B |
Where Danger with Ambition strays | C |
Or far with anxious step pursue | B |
Pale Av'rice thro' his winding ways | C |
The selfish passions in their train | D |
Whose force the social ties unbind | E |
And chill the love of human kind | E |
And make fond Nature's best emotions vain | D |
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II | A |
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O poesy O nymph most dear | F |
To whom I early gave my heart | E |
Whose voice is sweetest to my ear | G |
Of aught in nature or in art | E |
Thou who canst all my breast controul | H |
Come and thy harp of various cadence bring | I |
And long with melting music swell the string | I |
That suits the present temper of my soul | H |
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III | A |
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O ever gild my path of woe | J |
And I the ills of life can bear | K |
Let but thy lovely visions glow | J |
And chase the forms of real care | K |
O still when tempted to repine | D |
At partial Fortune's frown severe | F |
Wipe from my eyes the anxious tear | K |
And whisper that thy soothing joys are mine | D |
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IV | B |
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When did my fancy ever frame | L |
A dream of joy by thee unblest | E |
When first my lips pronounc'd thy name | L |
New pleasure warm'd my infant breast | E |
I lov'd to form the jingling rhyme | M |
The measur'd sounds tho' rude my ear could please | N |
Could give the little pains of childhood ease | N |
And long have sooth'd the keener pains of time | M |
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V | B |
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The idle crowd in fashion's train | D |
Their trifling comment pert reply | H |
Who talk so much yet talk in vain | D |
How pleas'd for thee O nymph I fly | H |
For thine is all the wealth of mind | E |
Thine the unborrow'd gems of thought | E |
The flash of light by souls refin'd | E |
From heav'n's empyreal source exulting caught | E |
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VI | H |
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And ah when destin'd to forego | J |
The social hour with those I love | B |
That charm which brightens all below | J |
That joy all other joys above | B |
And dearer to this breast of mine | D |
O Muse than aught thy magic power can give | B |
Then on the gloom of lonely sadness shine | D |
And bid thy airy forms around me live | B |
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VII | B |
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Thy page O SHAKESPEARE let me view | B |
Thine at whose name my bosom glows | O |
Proud that my earliest breath I drew | B |
In that blest isle where SHAKESPEARE rose | O |
Where shall my dazzled glances roll | H |
Shall I pursue gay Ariel's flight | E |
Or wander where those hags of night | E |
With deeds unnam'd shall freeze my trembling soul | H |
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VIII | B |
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Plunge me foul sisters in the gloom | P |
Ye wrap around yon blasted heath | Q |
To hear the harrowing rite I come | R |
That calls the angry shades from death | S |
Away my frighted bosom spare | K |
Let true Cordelia pour her filial sigh | B |
Let Desdemona lift her pleading eye | B |
And poor Ophelia sing in wild despair | K |
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IX | O |
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When the bright noon of summer streams | O |
In one wide flash of lavish day | E |
As soon shall mortal count the beams | O |
As tell the powers of SHAKESPEARE'S lay | E |
O Nature's Poet the untaught | E |
The simple mind thy tale pursues | O |
And wonders by what art it views | O |
The perfect image of each native thought | E |
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X | O |
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In those still moments when the breast | E |
Expanded leaves its cares behind | E |
Glows by some higher thought possest | E |
And feels the energies of mind | E |
Then awful MILTON raise the veil | H |
That hides from human eye the heav'nly throng | T |
Immortal sons of light I hear your song | T |
I hear your high tun'd harps creation hail | H |
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XI | O |
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Well might creation claim your care | K |
And well the string of rapture move | B |
When all was perfect good and fair | K |
When all was music joy and love | B |
Ere Evil's inauspicious birth | U |
Chang'd Nature's harmony to strife | B |
And wild Remorse abhorring life | B |
And deep Affliction spread their shade on earth | U |
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XII | O |
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Blest Poesy O sent to calm | V |
The human pains which all must feel | H |
Still shed on life thy precious balm | V |
And every wound of nature heal | H |
Is there a heart of human frame | L |
Along the burning track of torrid light | E |
Or 'mid the fearful waste of polar night | E |
That never glow'd at thy inspiring name | L |
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XIII | O |
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Ye Southern Isles emerg'd so late | E |
Where the Pacific billow rolls | O |
Witness though rude your simple state | E |
How heav'n taught verse can melt your souls | O |
Say when you hear the wand'ring bard | E |
How thrill'd ye listen to his lay | E |
By what kind arts ye court his stay | E |
All savage life affords his sure reward | E |
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XIV | B |
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So when great HOMER 'S chiefs prepare | K |
Awhile from War's rude toils releas'd | E |
The pious hecatomb and share | K |
The flowing bowl and genial feast | E |
Some heav'nly minstrel sweeps the lyre | W |
While all applaud the poet's native art | E |
For him they heap the viand's choicest part | E |
And copious goblets crown the Muse's fire | X |
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XV | B |
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Ev'n here in scenes of pride and gain | D |
Where faint each genuine feeling glows | O |
Here Nature asks in want and pain | D |
The dear illusions verse bestows | O |
The poor from hunger and from cold | E |
Spare one small coin the ballad's price | O |
Admire their poet's quaint device | O |
And marvel much at all his rhymes unfold | E |
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XVI | B |
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Ye children lost in forests drear | X |
Still o'er your wrongs each bosom grieves | O |
And long the red breast shall be dear | X |
Who strew'd each little corpse with leaves | O |
For you my earliest tears were shed | E |
For you the gaudy doll I pleas'd forsook | Y |
And heard with hands uprais'd and eager look | Y |
The cruel tale and wish'd ye were not dead | E |
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XVII | B |
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And still on Scotia's northern shore | X |
At times between the rushing blast | E |
Recording mem'ry loves to pour | X |
The mournful song of ages past | E |
Come lonely Bard of other years | O |
While dim the half seen moon of varying skies | O |
While sad the wind along the grey moss sighs | O |
And give my pensive heart the joy of tears | O |
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XVIII | B |
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The various tropes that splendour dart | E |
Around the modern poet's line | D |
Where borrow'd from the sphere of art | E |
Unnumber'd gay allusions shine | D |
Have not a charm my breast to please | O |
Like the blue mist the meteor's beam | Z |
The dark brow'd rock the mountain stream | Z |
And the light thistle waving in the breeze | O |
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XIX | O |
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Wild Poesy in haunts sublime | M |
Delights her lofty note to pour | X |
She loves the hanging rock to climb | M |
And hear the sweeping torrent roar | X |
The little scene of cultur'd grace | O |
But faintly her expanded bosom warms | O |
She seeks the daring stroke the awful charms | O |
Which Nature's pencil throws on Nature's face | O |
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XX | O |
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O Nature thou whose works divine | D |
Such rapture in this breast inspire | X |
As makes me dream one spark is mine | D |
Of Poesy's celestial fire | X |
When doom'd in cities pent to leave | B |
The kindling morn's unfolding view | B |
Which ever wears some aspect new | B |
And all the shadowy forms of soothing eve | B |
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XXI | O |
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Then THOMSON then be ever near | X |
And paint whatever season reigns | O |
Still let me see the varying year | X |
And worship Nature in thy strains | O |
Now when the wint'ry tempests roll | H |
Unfold their dark and desolating form | A2 |
Rush in the savage madness of the storm | A2 |
And spread those horrors that exalt my soul | H |
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XXII | O |
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And POPE the music of thy verse | O |
Shall winter's dreary gloom dispel | H |
And fond remembrance oft rehearse | O |
The moral song she knows so well | H |
The sportive sylphs shall flutter here | X |
There Eloise in anguish pale | H |
Kiss with cold lips the sacred veil | H |
And drop with every bead too soft a tear | X |
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XXIII | O |
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When disappointment's sick'ning pain | D |
With chilling sadness numbs my breast | E |
That feels its dearest hope was vain | D |
And bids its fruitless struggles rest | E |
When those for whom I wish to live | B |
With cold suspicion wrong my aching heart | E |
Or doom'd from those for ever lov'd to part | E |
And feel a sharper pang than death can give | B |
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XXIV | B |
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Then with the mournful Bard I go | J |
Whom melancholy mark'd her own | D |
While tolls the curfew solemn slow | J |
And wander amid graves unknown | D |
With yon pale orb lov'd poet come | R |
While from those elms long shadows spread | E |
And where the lines of light are shed | E |
Read the fond record of the rustic tomb | P |
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XXV | B |
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Or let me o'er old Conway's flood | E |
Hang on the frowning rock and trace | O |
The characters that wove in blood | E |
Stamp'd the dire fate of EDWARD'S race | O |
Proud tyrant tear thy laurell'd plume | P |
How po | J |
Helen Maria Williams
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