Sonnet By Capel Lofft, Esq. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCADE FGGFFGFGHAAHFF| This Sonnet was addressed to the Author of this volume and | A |
| was occasioned by several little Quatorzains misnomered | A |
| Sonnets which he published in the Monthly Mirror He begs | B |
| leave to return his thanks to the much respected writer for | C |
| the permission so politely granted to insert it here and | A |
| for the good opinion he has been pleased to express of his | D |
| productions | E |
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| Ye whose aspirings court the muse of lays | F |
| Severest of those orders which belong | G |
| Distinct and separate to Delphic song | G |
| Why shun the sonnet's undulating maze | F |
| And why its name boast of Petrarchian days | F |
| Assume its rules disown'd whom from the throng | G |
| The muse selects their ear the charm obeys | F |
| Of its full harmony they fear to wrong | G |
| The sonnet by adorning with a name | H |
| Of that distinguish'd import lays though sweet | A |
| Yet not in magic texture taught to meet | A |
| Of that so varied and peculiar frame | H |
| O think to vindicate its genuine praise | F |
| Those it beseems whose lyre a favouring impulse sways | F |
Henry Kirk White
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