Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCE FGHG IJKJ ILIL MNMN OPOC IQIQ RSTS UVUVWritten between the ages of fourteen and fifteen | A |
with a few subsequent verbal alterations | B |
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Music all powerful o'er the human mind | C |
Can still each mental storm each tumult calm | D |
Soothe anxious care on sleepless couch reclined | C |
And e'en fierce Anger's furious rage disarm | E |
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At her command the various passions lie | F |
She stirs to battle or she lulls to peace | G |
Melts the charm'd soul to thrilling ecstasy | H |
And bids the jarring world's harsh clangour cease | G |
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Her martial sounds can fainting troops inspire | I |
With strength unwonted and enthusiasm raise | J |
Infuse new ardour and with youthful fire | K |
Urge on the warrior gray with length of days | J |
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Far better she when with her soothing lyre | I |
She charms the falchion from the savage grasp | L |
And melting into pity vengeful ire | I |
Looses the bloody breastplate's iron clasp | L |
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With her in pensive mood I long to roam | M |
At midnight's hour or evening's calm decline | N |
And thoughtful o'er the falling streamlet's foam | M |
In calm seclusion's hermit walks recline | N |
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Whilst mellow sounds from distant copse arise | O |
Of softest flute or reeds harmonic join'd | P |
With rapture thrill'd each worldly passion dies | O |
And pleased attention claims the passive mind | C |
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Soft through the dell the dying strains retire | I |
Then burst majestic in the varied swell | Q |
Now breathe melodious as the Grecian lyre | I |
Or on the ear in sinking cadence dwell | Q |
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Romantic sounds such is the bliss ye give | R |
That heaven's bright scenes seem bursting on the soul | S |
With joy I'd yield each sensual wish to live | T |
For ever 'neath your undefiled control | S |
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Oh surely melody from heaven was sent | U |
To cheer the soul when tired with human strife | V |
To soothe the wayward heart by sorrow rent | U |
And soften down the rugged road of life | V |
Henry Kirk White
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