Genius: An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I	A
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Many there be who through the vale of life	B
With velvet pace unnoticed softly go	C
While jarring discord's inharmonious strife	B
Awakes them not to woe	C
By them unheeded carking care	D
Green eyed grief and dull despair	D
Smoothly they pursue their way	E
With even tenor and with equal breath	F
Alike through cloudy and through sunny day	E
Then sink in peace to death	F
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II	A
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But ah a few there be whom griefs devour	G
And weeping woe and disappointment keen	H
Repining penury and sorrow sour	G
And self consuming spleen	H
And these are Genius' favourites these	I
Know the thought throned mind to please	I
And from her fleshy seat to draw	J
To realms where Fancy's golden orbits roll	K
Disdaining all but 'wildering rapture's law	J
The captivated soul	K
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III	A
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Genius from thy starry throne	L
High above the burning zone	L
In radiant robe of light array'd	M
Oh hear the plaint by thy sad favourite made	M
His melancholy moan	L
He tells of scorn he tells of broken vows	N
Of sleepless nights of anguish ridden days	O
Pangs that his sensibility uprouse	O
To curse his being and his thirst for praise	O
Thou gavest to him with treble force to feel	P
The sting of keen neglect the rich man's scorn	Q
And what o'er all does in his soul preside	R
Predominant and tempers him to steel	P
His high indignant pride	R
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I	A
	-
Lament not ye who humbly steal through life	B
That Genius visits not your lowly shed	S
For ah what woes and sorrows ever rife	B
Distract his hapless head	S
For him awaits no balmy sleep	T
He wakes all night and wakes to weep	T
Or by his lonely lamp he sits	O
At solemn midnight when the peasant sleeps	O
In feverish study and in moody fits	O
His mournful vigils keeps	O
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II	A
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And oh for what consumes his watchful oil	U
For what does thus he waste life's fleeting breath	F
'T is for neglect and penury he doth toil	U
'Tis for untimely death	F
Lo where dejected pale he lies	O
Despair depicted in his eyes	O
He feels the vital flame decrease	O
He sees the grave wide yawning for its prey	E
Without a friend to soothe his soul to peace	O
And cheer the expiring ray	E
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III	A
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By Sulmo's bard of mournful fame	V
By gentle Otway's magic name	V
By him the youth who smiled at death	F
And rashly dared to stop his vital breath	F
Will I thy pangs proclaim	V
For still to misery closely thou'rt allied	R
Though gaudy pageants glitter by thy side	R
And far resounding Fame	V
What though to thee the dazzled millions bow	W
And to thy posthumous merit bend them low	C
Though unto thee the monarch looks with awe	X
And thou at thy flash'd car dost nations draw	J
Yet ah unseen behind thee fly	A
Corroding Anguish soul subduing Pain	Y
And Discontent that clouds the fairest sky	A
A melancholy train	Y
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Yes Genius thee a thousand cares await	Z
Mocking thy derided state	Z
Thee chill Adversity will still attend	A2
Before whose face flies fast the summer's friend	A2
And leaves thee all forlorn	Q
While leaden Ignorance rears her head and laughs	O
And fat Stupidity shakes his jolly sides	O
And while the cup of affluence he quaffs	O
With bee eyed Wisdom Genius derides	O
Who toils and every hardship doth outbrave	B
To gain the meed of praise when he is mouldering in his grave	B

Henry Kirk White

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